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Elements of the Short Story
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These are the events leading to the
climax.
Plot 100
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Plot--100
What is rising action?
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Plot 200
Action that occurs as a result of the
climax.
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What is falling action?
Plot-200
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Plot--300
This the point in the story when you
are going to find out the outcome of
the conflict—also the emotional high
point.
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Plot 300
What is the climax?
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Outcome of the conflict—i.e. they
lived happily ever after
Plot –400
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What is resolution?
Plot-400
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This is the background information—
exposing you to characters and setting.
Plot--500
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What is exposition?
Plot-500
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This is the main character.
Characters-100
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Characters 100
What is protagonist?
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Characters 200
This is a character with many different
traits—one who you know a lot about.
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What is a round character?
Characters--200
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Characters-300
This is a character who undergoes a
change.
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Characters 300
What is a dynamic character?
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This is a character with one defining
trait.
Characters 400
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What is a flat character?
Characters 400
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This is the character that is opposite
the main character.
Characters--500
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What is the antagonist?
Characters 500
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Direct or Indirect 100
A description from the narrator
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Direct or Indirect 100
What is direct?
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Speech and Actions of the characters
Direct or Indirect 200
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What is indirect?
Indirect or direct 200
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He has brown hair with a bit of a
cowlick.
Direct or indirect 300
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Direct or Indirect 300
What is direct?
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Direct or Indirect 400
Dr. Stroud exclaimed, “Be quiet!”
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What is indirect?
Direct or Indirect 400
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The man quietly placed $10 in the
man’s cup.
Direct or Indirect
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What is indirect?
Direct or Indirect 500
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POV 100
The point of view refers to the
relationship of this to the story.
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POV 100
What is the narrator?
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This narrator is always a character in
the story.
POV 200
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What is a first-person narrator?
POV 200
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POV 300
This narrator is outside of the story but
focuses on thoughts of one character.
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POV 300
What is a third-person limited
narrator?
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This type of narrator can focus on
many characters’ thoughts and
feelings.
POV 400
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What is a third-person omniscient
narrator?
POV 400
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This is what it is called when the
narrator moves from one character to
another.
POV 500
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What is a point of view shift?
POV 500
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This is the time and place of the story.
Whatever 100
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Whatever 100
What is setting?
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Whatever 200
This is a struggle between opposing
forces.
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What is conflict?
Whatever 200
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Whatever 300
This is the author’s attitude toward
characters or subject.
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Whatever 300
What is tone?
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Generally speaking, this is the
“unexpected”.
Whatever 400
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What is irony?
Whatever 400
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This is a choice that is neither right
nor wrong. Both choices can be
equally right.
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Whatever 500
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What is a moral or ethical dilemma?
Whatever 500
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