Conflict
Plot
Characterization
Short Stories
Literary Devices
100
This kind of conflict occurs when a person has to battle against another person.
What is person vs. person?
100
In this part of plot, the reader learns about the characters, setting, and the conflict.
What is the introduction
100
The main character of a story.
What is the protagonist.
100
In this story the theme was about being honest.
What is Curses Inc.
100
The feeling the author tries to create by using the atomosphere
What is mood
200
This kind of conflict occurs when a person has to fight for his/her life against a tsunami to keep from drowning.
What is person vs. nature
200
In this part of the plot, all of the major conflicts are resolved and the reader's lingering questions are answered.
What is the resolution
200
This term refers to the person who competes against the main character or creates obstacles for them.
Who is the antagonist?
200
A story about an unusual friendship.
What is Secret for Two?
200
Your heart races, your palms sweat, you sit on the edge of your seat wanting to know what will happen next
What is supense
300
Connie has an uneasy feeling in the taxi cab on the way home. She tries to talk herself out of the feeling but the feeling of dread keeps coming back.
What is person vs. self?
300
In the story "Curses Inc." Edanna tells Bill that Denise had taken out a "Lose All Your Money" curse out on him first.
What is the climax
300
In this story we read about a character who showed tremendous perseverance.
What is Angie?
300
A story in which the setting was vividly described.
What is Moon Maiden?
300
The river was a angry beast that frothed and foamed below the bridge.
What is metaphor?
400
In this story the character faced the fear of losing her mind, of developing a type of "madness." This internal conflict took place in?
Moon Maiden?
400
This is the part of plot when complications continue to arise that build tension in the story.
What is the rising action
400
A character who undergoes changes from the beginning of the story to the end.
What is dynamic character?
400
The setting of this story took place in Cinncinati in a grocery store
Checkouts
400
This give the reader a hint that something will come later in the story
What is Foreshadowing?
500
The 4 main elements of short stories.
What are setting, plot, characterization and theme
500
During this part of the plot the suspence ease, the climax is reveals and the main character resolves the conflict
What is the falling action
500
What a character says, feels, thinks, does and looks like.
What is characterization?
500
In this story the antagonist could be "fear."
What is Angie.
500
This literary device is demonstrated in how Joseph and Pierre communicate in "Secret for Two" as well as Bill and Edanna in "Curses Inc."
What is non-verbal dialogue?
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