Review of the terms you need to know for your short stories test
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| Setting | show 🗑
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| show | The actors in a story's plot. They can be people, animals, or whatever the writer chooses.
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| show | The main character in the story
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| show | The person in conflict with the main character. Not all stories have antagonists, although most do.
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| Point of view | show 🗑
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| show | The narrator is a character in the story, referred to as "I"
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| show | The narrator reveals the thoughts of ONLY ONE character, referring to that character as "he" or "she"
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| show | The narrator knows everything about the story's events and reveals the thoughts of ALL the characters.
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| show | The central idea or message of the story, often a lesson about life or human nature
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| Plot | show 🗑
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| show | One between a character and an outside force, such as another character, nature, society, or fate
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| show | Takes place within the mind of a character who is torn between opposing feelings or between different courses of action
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| show | An external struggle between two characters
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| show | An external struggle between a character and a social force such as poverty, political revolution, etc.
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| Man versus nature | show 🗑
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| show | An INTERNAL struggle within a character, where aspects of his or her personality may struggle for dominance.
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| show | Introduces the story's characters, setting, conflict
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| show | Occurs as complications, twists, or intensifications of the conflict occur
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| show | The emotional high point of the story
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| show | The logical result of the climax
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| Resolution | show 🗑
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| show | When the opposite of what is expected (or what "should" happen) occurs
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| Verbal irony | show 🗑
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| Dramatic irony | show 🗑
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| show | The way a writer creates and develops a character
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| show | We must infer things about the character by looking at his or her thoughts and actions
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| Direct characterization | show 🗑
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