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Parts of Short Story
Literay Term
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Setting | Where a story takes place includes in time of day your in History time of year |
| Mood | Atmosphere of the story is created by the setting |
| Theme | Author message or lesson what do you learn form the story |
| Conflict | Problem of the story |
| Internal Conflict | when a character forced to make a difficult decision |
| Person vs Self | Some as an internal conflict a character force to make |
| External Conflict | Problem or conflict is created by an outside force |
| Man vs man | Two people in conflict argue of fight |
| Man vs fate | a person who cannot control his/hers destiny |
| Man vs society | person who values and beliefs are different from society |
| man vs nature | Conflict is created by a force of nature |
| plot | sequence of event is about a short story |
| Exposition | all background information is given |
| Narrative hook | Main conflict is introduced |
| Rising action | event in a story that led to the climax |
| climax | the most exciting part of a story |
| falling action | events leading to the conclusion of the short story |
| Conclusion | Resolution end of the story |
| narrator | the person who tells the story |
| Tone | authors attitude about the short story |
| point of view | how the story is told |
| 1st person | the narrator is part of the story |
| 3rd limited | the narrator is a part of the story |
| 3rd omniscient | omni~all secret knowing |
| character | people of animal in a short story |
| major | most important character in the story |
| protagonist | the main character the good guy |
| Antagonist | The character who creates problems for the protagonist |
| Minor | additional character needed to tell the shorty |
| Dynamic Character | A character whose values belief or thought change in a short story |
| Static Character | A character who values belief do not change |
| Indirect Characterization | the reader learns about a character |
| Direct characterization | the leader learn about a character |
| Symbol | Something represent a thought attitude emotions |
| Irony | The Different between appearance and Reality |
| Foreshadowing | Hints about what will happen later in the story |
| Flat Character | A character with one main personality trait |
| Round character | A character with many Personality |
| inference | guess-based on information in the text AND what you know to be true |
| ethos | the author tries to convince the audience of his/her credibility or knowledge of the subject matter. " i know his because ." |
| logos | the author uses logic /" common sense thnking " to convice the reader / andience that |
| pathos | the author uses emotion to create sympathy for his / her argument. the author may cause the reader to feel angry |
| diction | word choice... what words has the writers used to tell his / her story |
| imagry | creating a mental picture by appealing to the 5 senses |
| metaphor | a comparison of two unalike things by saying on is the other EX it is an oven in the clkassro |
| simile | a camparesion of two unalike things by using like or as EX: it is as hot as an oven in the classroom |
| comatopoaia | sound words EX: pop, pow, buzz |
| allusion | a reference in a story to an historical event or another story |
| alliteration | repeating the beginning SOUND of the EX peter piper picked pickles |
| personification | giving non living thing human abilities |
| hyperbole | extreme exaggeration EX: i am so hungry i could eat a horse |
| objective | based in facts : having a right or wrong answer |
| subjective | based on feeling and emotions |
| demotation | the dictionary meaning of a word |
| connotation | implied meaning ; feeling associated with a word |
| claim | a statement a statement that can be argued agiaisnted |
| rhetoric | a writing techinque that is used to persude a reader to think about a topic from a different perspective view point |