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1
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What provides the setting of the story?

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The Introduction

2
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What introduces the characters of the story?

A

The Introduction

3
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What sets the mood and atmosphere of the story?

A

The Introduction

4
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What creates interest in the reader of a story? What is the interest called?

A

The Introduction, Suspense

5
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What is a protagonist?

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The most important character of the story - the center of attention and focus of the conflict.

6
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What is the most important character of the story, the center of attention and focus of the conflict known as?

A

Protagonist

7
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What is an antagonist?

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The major opponent of the protagonist.

8
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What is the major opponent of the protagonist known as?

A

Antagonist

9
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What are the four functions of an introduction in a short story?

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Provide the setting, introduce the characters, set the mood and atmosphere and create interest/suspense.

10
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What are characters?

A

Those who act out the plot.

11
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What are those who act out the plot known as?

A

Characters

12
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What is the starting incident?

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First act that comes after the introduction. The protagonist is opposed by someone or something definite.

13
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What is the first act that comes after the introduction in which the protagonist is opposed by someone or something definite known as?

A

Starting Incident

14
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What are the four major conflict types?

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Person vs Person, Person vs Nature, Person vs Self, Person vs Supernatural

15
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Person vs Person, Person vs Nature, Person vs Self, and Person vs Supernatural are all types of what?

A

Conflict

16
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What is the rising action?

A

A series of incidents which cause the interest to rise. The suspense grows as we are forced to ask questions and discover the answers as we go along.

17
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What is the series of incidents which cause the interest in a story to rise known as?

A

Rising Action

18
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What are the complications of a story?

A

The incidents of the rising action.

19
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What are the incidents of the rising action known as?

A

Complications

20
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What is the crisis of a story?

A

A special complication that is a structural turning point shortly before the climax.

21
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What is the special complication that is a structural turning point shortly before the climax known as?

A

Crisis

22
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What is the climax?

A

The highest point of interest or suspense that involves the protagonist and antagonist. It comes shortly before the main conflict is resolved.

23
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What is the highest point of interest or suspense that involves the protagonist and antagonist known as?

A

Climax

24
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What is the falling action also known as?

A

Denouement

25
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What is denouement another word for?

A

Falling Action

26
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What is the falling action?

A

The portion of the plot after the climax which explains or reinterprets details of minor significance.

27
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What portion of the plot after the climax explains or reinterprets details of minor significance?

A

Falling Action

28
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What is the conclusion of a story?

A

The final summary that brings the story to an end.

29
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What is the final summary that brings the story to an end known as?

A

Conclusion

30
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What is foreshadowing?

A

Hinting or warning that something is going to happen.

31
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What is hinting or warning that something is going to happen known as?

A

Foreshadowing

32
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What is foreboding?

A

Hinting or warning that something bad is going to happen.

33
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What is hinting or warning that something bad is going to happen known as?

A

Foreboding

34
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What is the theme of a story?

A

The main message.

35
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What is the main message of a story known as?

A

Theme

36
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What is a flashback?

A

A jump back into the past to explain something.

37
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What is a jump back into the past to explain something known as?

A

Flashback

38
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What is irony?

A

A device that writers sometimes use to add a special twist to their work.

39
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What is a device that writers sometimes use to add a special twist to their work known as?

A

Irony

40
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What is verbal irony?

A

Saying the opposite of what you mean.

41
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What is saying the opposite of what you mean known as?

A

Verbal Irony

42
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What is dramatic irony?

A

Something that carries meaning significant to the reader but not the characters.

43
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What is something that carries meaning significant to the reader but not the characters known as?

A

Dramatic Irony

44
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What is irony of situation?

A

When things turn out in a way that is a reversal of what the character or reader expected.

45
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What is it called when things turn out in a way that is a reversal of what the character or reader expected?

A

Irony of Situation

46
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What is irony of fate?

A

When people do dangerous things all their laves and take many risks and then suffer from something very minor.

47
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What is it called when people do dangerous things all their laves and take many risks and then suffer from something very minor?

A

Irony of Fate

48
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What is a symbol?

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Something that stands for something else. (ex. a cross)

49
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What is something that stands for something else known as?

A

Symbol

50
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What is point of view?

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The type of narration being used by the author to tell the story.

51
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What is the type of narration in a story known as?

A

Point of View

52
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What is first person narration?

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The narrator is a character in the story and uses pronouns like I, me and myself.

53
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What is it called when the narrator is a character in the story?

A

First Person Narration/View

54
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What is third person narration?

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The narrator is not a character and tells the story from the outside.

55
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What is it called when the narrator is not a character and tells the story from the outside?

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Third Person Narration/View

56
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What is omniscient third person narration?

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When the narrator knows the thoughts of all the characters in the story.

57
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What is it called when the narrator knows the thoughts of all the characters in the story?

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Omniscient Third Person Narration/View

58
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What is limited omniscient third person narration?

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When the narrator knows the thoughts of only one or two characters in the story.

59
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What is it called when the narrator knows the thoughts of only one or two characters in the story?

A

Limited Omniscient Third Person Narration/View

60
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What is objective third person narration?

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When the narrator describes the action but does not reveal what the characters think or feel.

61
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What is it called when the narrator describes the action but does not reveal what the characters think or feel?

A

Objective Third Person Narration/View

62
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What is the mood of a story?

A

The feeling evoked in the reader.

63
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What is the feeling evoked in the reader known as?

A

Mood

64
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What is the tone of a story?

A

The author’s attitude or feeling that is reflected in the style of writing (how it’s writing).

65
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What is the author’s attitude or feeling that is reflected in the style of writing known as?

A

Tone

66
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What are the four ways author’s portray their characters?

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What they do, what they say or think, what the narrator says about them and how other characters react to them.