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ShortStory.
lterary terms definitons
Question | Answer |
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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. |