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ShortStory.
lterary terms definitons
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| setting. | where a story takes place includes time of day, your in history, time of year. |
| mood. | atomosphere of the story, the moood of a story is created by the setting. |
| theme. :D | author's message or lesson what do learn from the story. |
| conflict. ^-^ | problem in a story. |
| *internal conflict | when a character forced to make a difficult decison. |
| person vs. self | some as an internal conflict is a character force to make diffcult |
| *external conflict | problem of conflcit is created by an outside force |
| man vs. man | two people in conflict argue or fight |
| man vs. fate | a person who cannot controll his/her destiny |
| man vs. soceity | a person vaulues and beliefs or differnet from soceity |
| man vs. nature | conflict is created by a force of nature |
| plot | squence of events in short story. |
| exposition | all background information is given |
| narrative hook | main conlficts is introuduce |
| rising action | events in a story that led to climate |
| climax | the most exicting part of the story turning point |
| falling action | event leading to the conclusion of a short story. |
| conslusion | resolution end of a story |
| narrator | the person who tells the story |
| tone | resoultion end of a story |
| point of view | how the story is told |
| 1st person | the narrator is a part of the story |
| 3rd limited | the narrator tells the story through the event of one character |
| 3rd omniscent | omni-all secert knowin |
| characters | people or animals in a story |
| *major | most important characters in the story |
| protagonist | the main character: the good guy. |
| antagonist | the character who creates problems for the portangonist . |
| minor | additonal character needed to the tell story |
| dynamic character | a character whoes vaules, beliefs or toughts change in a short story. |
| static character | a character who vaules ,belifes , do not change. |
| indireact characterization | the reader learns about a character through his/her words |
| direact characterization | the reader learns about a character. |
| symbol | somthing represent a thought attiude emotion |
| irony | the difference between apperence reality. |
| foreshadowing | hints about what will happen later in the story |
| flat- | a character with one main personality trait |
| round | charcter with many personalityu trait. |