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Short Story Elements Flashcards
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- 1Short Storya fictional, narrative piece of writing that has many of the same characteristics of a novel but is less than ten thousand words
- 2Story Plot Line1. Introduction
2. Trigger Incident
3. Rising Action
4. Climax
5. Falling Action
6. Conclusion/Resolution - 3Explicit Endingeverything wraps up nicely
- 4Implicit Endinguses reader's interpretation and could be interpreted in a variety of ways
- 5Twist Endingunexpected and surprising ending
- 6Unresolved Endingreader is left to imagine what happens next
- 7Tie Back Endingoften refers to clues given at the beginning of the story
- 8Dynamic Characterundergo some type of change in the story
- 9Static Characterdoes not change in the course of the story
- 10Protagonistthe main character in a story, novel, or play
- 11Antagonistthe character who struggles or fights against the protagonist
- 12Secondaryrecurring characters that are of lesser importance compared to the main characters
- 13Tertiarycharacters who appear in one, perhaps two, scenes for a specific, limited purpose
- 14Character Traitdescribes a character through their actions and thoughts-can develop and change over the course of the story
- 15Conflictthe force that moves the plot along and the struggles in which the characters are involved
- 16Narrationthe way in which the author conveys the story to the reader which can be broken down into three parts-POV, narrative voice, narrative time
- 17Point of viewwho is telling the story
- 18Narrative Voicehow the story is told
- 19Narrative timewhen the story is told in relation to the story's events
- 20First Personstory is told by one of the characters, uses "I" or "Me", not always accurate or truthful about what is happening
- 21Second Personstory is told by referring to the person telling the story as "you", draws the reader by making them part of the story
- 22Third Personstory is told through and entity that is outside of the story, characters in the novel are referred to as "he" or "she"
- 23Alternating Personstory is told through two or more alternating points of view
- 24stream of consciousnesstries to mirror the way thoughts naturally flow in a person's mind
- 25Expository Voicethe story is told through a series of documents such as letter or journal entries
- 26Third-Person Objective Voicethe story is narrated in the third person by an objective or unbiased entity
- 27Third-Person Subjective Voicestory is narrated in the third person by an entity that conveys the thoughts, feelings, and opinions of one or more characters
- 28Third-Person Omniscient Voicestory is narrated in the third person by an entity that has an understanding of all characters' thoughts, feelings, and opinions , appears to be "all-knowing"
- 29Alliterationthe repetition of the same sound at the start of a series of words
Ex. Jackson jumped joyfully - 30Anthropomorphismgiving human form or behavior to non-human organism or inanimate objects
Ex. Cars - 31Personificationusing figurative language to give inanimate objects or non-human organisms human characteristics in a metaphorical way
EX. the wind roared wildly - 32Hyperbolean over-exaggeration of something
- 33Allusionreferences to events or characters from history, myth, religion, literature, pop culture, etc.
- 34Similecomparing two or more things using like or as
- 35Metaphorcomparing two or more things without using like or as
- 36Symbolismobjects, ideas, actions, etc. representing something other than itself
- 37Imageryuse of descriptive and figurative language to create images that evoke impressions or emotions in the reader
- 38Foreshadowingwhen the author provides clues about what might happen in the future
- 39Flashbacka technique for presenting something that happened earlier that helps explain something about the current situation
- 40Verbal Ironysaying the opposite of what you mean
- 41Situational Ironywhen the result of actions is the opposite or the desired or expected result
- 42Dramatic Ironywhen the reader or audience knows something the characters do not know
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