Genres
A brief work of fiction.
What is a short story?
The leading character or one of the major characters in a drama, movie, novel, or other fictional text.
What is the protagonist?
The 4th Point on the Plot Map.
What is the climax?
The time and place in which a story is set.
What is a setting?
The person/thing/place that gets in the way of the protagonist.
What is the antagonist?
Literature in the form of prose, especially short stories and novels, describing imaginary events and people.
What is fiction?
Characters that do not change throughout the course of the narrative.
What is a Static Character?
The 1st point on the plot map.
What is the exposition?
The events that make up a storyline.
What is the plot?
Introduces background information about events, settings, characters etc. to the audience or readers.
What is exposition?
A story set in space.
Characters that change throughout the course of the narrative.
The 3rd Point on the Plot Map
What is the Rising Action?
Is a literary element that involves a struggle between two opposing forces – usually the protagonist and an antagonist
What is conflict?
The point in a narrative at which the conflict or tension hits the highest point.
What is the climax?
A story that shares facts and true stories.
Characters that display multiple character traits
What is a Round Character?
The 5th Point on the Plot Map.
What is the Falling Action?
The outside narrator knows the thoughts and feelings of all of the characters.
What is an omniscient third-person narrator?
A struggle between a character and an outside force (another character or nature).
What is external conflict?
A story that is acted out on screen or stage, containing two or more people interacting with each other in dialogue.
What is drama?
Characters that are two-dimensional and are relatively uncomplicated.
What is a Flat Character?
What is the inciting incident?
The six literary devices in short stories.
What are character, setting, plot, conflict, point of view, and theme?
The event that sets the central conflict in motion.
What is the inciting incident?