Elements Of A Short Story

Question 1

Elements of a short story

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SeChaPloConPoThe
Setting
Characters
Plot
Conflict
Point of view
Theme

Question 2

Geographical location

Where is the action of the story taking place?

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Place

Question 3

When is the story taking place?

Historical period, time of day, year, etc

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Time

Question 4

Is it rainy sunny stormy etc?

Answer 4

Weather conditions

Question 5

What is the daily life of the characters like?

Answer 5

Social conditions

Question 6

What feeling is created at the beggining of the story?

Answer 6

Mood or atmosphere

Question 7

Is a person or sometimes even an animal, who takes part in the action of a short story or a piece of literary work

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Character

Question 8

Those who are most important in the story

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Main characters

Question 9

Usually static or unchanging

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Minor characters

Question 10

Character with whom the reader empathizes

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Protagonist (according to principality)

Question 11

Character that goes against the protagonist

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Antagonist ( according to principality)

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Character that exhibits noticeable decelopment

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Dynamic ( according to development)

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Character that exhibits no chsnges or development

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Static (according to development)

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Character thay displays different/multiple personalities throughout the story

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Round (according to personality)

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Character that reveals conventional traits, who remains the same throughout the story

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Flat (according to personality)

Question 16

Method used by the writer/author to reveal the personality of the character/s

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Characterization

Question 17

It is the sequence of events in a story or play

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Plot

Question 18

Moves with the natural sequence of events where actions are arramged sequentially

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Linear plot

Question 19

Where the linear development of the storybmerges with an interruption in the chronological order to show an event that happened in the past

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Circular plot

Question 20

Plot where the story commemces in the middle part of the action

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En medias res

Question 21

The beginning of the story where the characters and the settimg is reveales

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Introduction/ exposition

Question 22

Where events in the story become complicated and the conflict is revealed

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Rising action

Question 23

Highest point of interest and the turning point of the story

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Climax

Question 24

The events and complications begin to resolve themselves

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Falling action

Question 25

This is the final outcome or untangling of events in the story

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Denouement

Question 26

Is the opposition of forces which ties one incident to another amd makes the plot move

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Conflict

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2 major types of conflict

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External | Internal

Question 28

A struggle with a force outside one's self

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External

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Stryggle within one's self, a person must make decision, overcome pain, quiet their temper, resist an urge etc

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Internal

Question 30

Conflict where one character in the story has a problem with one or more of the other characters

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Man vs. Man (external)

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Conflict wjere a character has a conflict or problem with some element of society-the school, the law, the accepted way of doing things, and so on

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Man vs society (external)

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Conflict where a character has a problem with some natural happening: typhoon etc

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Man vs. Nature ( external)

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Comflict where a character has trouble deciding what to do in a particular situation

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Man vs self (internal)

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The angle from which the story is told

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Point of view

Question 35

The story is told by the protagonist or one of the characters who interacts closely with the protagonist or other characters

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First-Person POT

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The story is told so that the reader feels a s if they are inside the head of one character and knows all their thoughts and reactions

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Stream of conciousness

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The narrator tells the story from all knowing point of view.

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Third-Person Omniscent POT (third person)

Question 38

Is the controlling idea or the central insight

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Theme

Question 39

Aurhor's underlying meaning or maind idea that he is trying to convey

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Theme