What provides the setting of the story?
The Introduction
What introduces the characters of the story?
The Introduction
What sets the mood and atmosphere of the story?
The Introduction
What creates interest in the reader of a story? What is the interest called?
The Introduction, Suspense
What is a protagonist?
The most important character of the story - the center of attention and focus of the conflict.
What is the most important character of the story, the center of attention and focus of the conflict known as?
Protagonist
What is an antagonist?
The major opponent of the protagonist.
What is the major opponent of the protagonist known as?
Antagonist
What are the four functions of an introduction in a short story?
Provide the setting, introduce the characters, set the mood and atmosphere and create interest/suspense.
What are characters?
Those who act out the plot.
What are those who act out the plot known as?
Characters
What is the starting incident?
First act that comes after the introduction. The protagonist is opposed by someone or something definite.
What is the first act that comes after the introduction in which the protagonist is opposed by someone or something definite known as?
Starting Incident
What are the four major conflict types?
Person vs Person, Person vs Nature, Person vs Self, Person vs Supernatural
Person vs Person, Person vs Nature, Person vs Self, and Person vs Supernatural are all types of what?
Conflict
What is the rising action?
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.
What is the series of incidents which cause the interest in a story to rise known as?
Rising Action
What are the complications of a story?
The incidents of the rising action.
What are the incidents of the rising action known as?
Complications
What is the crisis of a story?
A special complication that is a structural turning point shortly before the climax.
What is the special complication that is a structural turning point shortly before the climax known as?
Crisis
What is the climax?
The highest point of interest or suspense that involves the protagonist and antagonist. It comes shortly before the main conflict is resolved.
What is the highest point of interest or suspense that involves the protagonist and antagonist known as?
Climax
What is the falling action also known as?
Denouement
What is denouement another word for?
Falling Action
What is the falling action?
The portion of the plot after the climax which explains or reinterprets details of minor significance.
What portion of the plot after the climax explains or reinterprets details of minor significance?
Falling Action
What is the conclusion of a story?
The final summary that brings the story to an end.
What is the final summary that brings the story to an end known as?
Conclusion
What is foreshadowing?
Hinting or warning that something is going to happen.
What is hinting or warning that something is going to happen known as?
Foreshadowing
What is foreboding?
Hinting or warning that something bad is going to happen.
What is hinting or warning that something bad is going to happen known as?
Foreboding
What is the theme of a story?
The main message.
What is the main message of a story known as?
Theme
What is a flashback?
A jump back into the past to explain something.
What is a jump back into the past to explain something known as?
Flashback
What is irony?
A device that writers sometimes use to add a special twist to their work.
What is a device that writers sometimes use to add a special twist to their work known as?
Irony
What is verbal irony?
Saying the opposite of what you mean.
What is saying the opposite of what you mean known as?
Verbal Irony
What is dramatic irony?
Something that carries meaning significant to the reader but not the characters.
What is something that carries meaning significant to the reader but not the characters known as?
Dramatic Irony
What is irony of situation?
When things turn out in a way that is a reversal of what the character or reader expected.
What is it called when things turn out in a way that is a reversal of what the character or reader expected?
Irony of Situation
What is irony of fate?
When people do dangerous things all their laves and take many risks and then suffer from something very minor.
What is it called when people do dangerous things all their laves and take many risks and then suffer from something very minor?
Irony of Fate
What is a symbol?
Something that stands for something else. (ex. a cross)
What is something that stands for something else known as?
Symbol
What is point of view?
The type of narration being used by the author to tell the story.
What is the type of narration in a story known as?
Point of View
What is first person narration?
The narrator is a character in the story and uses pronouns like I, me and myself.
What is it called when the narrator is a character in the story?
First Person Narration/View
What is third person narration?
The narrator is not a character and tells the story from the outside.
What is it called when the narrator is not a character and tells the story from the outside?
Third Person Narration/View
What is omniscient third person narration?
When the narrator knows the thoughts of all the characters in the story.
What is it called when the narrator knows the thoughts of all the characters in the story?
Omniscient Third Person Narration/View
What is limited omniscient third person narration?
When the narrator knows the thoughts of only one or two characters in the story.
What is it called when the narrator knows the thoughts of only one or two characters in the story?
Limited Omniscient Third Person Narration/View
What is objective third person narration?
When the narrator describes the action but does not reveal what the characters think or feel.
What is it called when the narrator describes the action but does not reveal what the characters think or feel?
Objective Third Person Narration/View
What is the mood of a story?
The feeling evoked in the reader.
What is the feeling evoked in the reader known as?
Mood
What is the tone of a story?
The author’s attitude or feeling that is reflected in the style of writing (how it’s writing).
What is the author’s attitude or feeling that is reflected in the style of writing known as?
Tone
What are the four ways author’s portray their characters?
What they do, what they say or think, what the narrator says about them and how other characters react to them.
