Shory Story Elements Flashcards
What each person in the story is (24 cards)
Antagonist
Opposition to the main character
What a person is like flat, wellrounded, life-like, complex
Character
Climax
Point of highest excitment or suspence in the story
Struggle between opposing forces… man vs man, man vs enviroment, man vs himself
Conflict
Denouement
Plot gets sorted out
A character how grows or changes
dynamic (character(
Flashback
Going back in time
Character used to emphasize traits of another character
Foil
Foreshadowing
A hint of things to come
type or kind of literature
Genre
Mood
feelings brought to the story
the telling of a story
Narrative
persoective from which the narrator veiws the story
Point of veiw
Omniscent
Told in third person. Narrator can see into the monds of every other character
told in third person the narrator knows the thoughts on one chracter only
Limited omniscent
First person
Telling a story about there self refering to ( oneself as I or me)
Main character of story
Protagonist
Setting
the place and time of the story
character who does not change or grow during the story (opposite to a dynamic character)
Static (character)
Stereotype
Character that appears to be typical of a certain group
One who represents a certain type similar to a steretype
Stock character
Style
how one author differs from another can be shown by word chose, sentence lengtg
When the audience is made to wonder what hapoens next
Suspence
Theme
Message or main idea of a piece of literature
