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Parts of Short Story
Literay Term
Question | Answer |
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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 |