Flashcards
Short Story Notes
Cards in this deck (29)
- 1Where the story takes placeSetting
- 2A character that does not change throughout the storyStatic Character
- 3The longest part of the storyRising Action
- 4A character that can be summed up in one or two traitsFlat Character
- 5A struggle between two forcesConflict
- 6The reader has no insight into the minds or hearts of the characters, the reader only sees and hears what is happeningCamera point of view
- 7The event that sets the story in motionThe motivation/initial incident
- 8Learning about the character through what the author directly saysDirect characterization
- 9The events of the storyThe plot
- 10The reader has insights into the hearts and minds of a few charactersLimited omniscient
- 11The highest point of action or the part where the main conflict is solvedClimax
- 12The loose ends of the story are tied upFalling action
- 13The perspective that the story is told fromPoint of view
- 14A character that changes throughout the storyDynamic character
- 15A character we know a great deal aboutA round character
- 16The narrator tells the story from his or her own point of viewFirst person
- 17Hints or clues about what will happen in the storyForshadowing
- 18Going to the past to remember and eventFlashback
- 19The reader has insights into the hearts and minds of all the charactersOmniscient
- 20The author provides info about the characters and the reader draws his or her own conclusionsIndirect characterization
- 21A stereotyped characterStock character
- 22The background information of the storyBeginning/Introduction/Exposition
- 23A problem a character facesComplication
- 24(1) ExpostionThe part of the story where we are given any background info
- 25(2) Motivation incidentThe event that happens that sets the story in motion
- 26(3) Rising ActionThe longest part of the story where majority of the action takes place
- 27(4) ClimaxThe part of the story where the main conflict is solved, and is usually the highest point of action
- 28(5) Falling actionThe few things that happen after the story that tie up the loose ends
- 29(6) EndingThe way the story ends