Elements of Fiction
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Short Stories
100
People, animals, or imaginary creatures that take part in the action of the story.
What is What are The characters of a story?
100
Part where the story becomes more complex.
What is the rising action?
100
The struggle between a character and something outside the character.
What is external conflict?
100
The character is telling the story. Pronouns you will see are "I, Me, Us, We".
What is first person point of view?
100

What is the name of the setting for Most Dangerous Game?

What is Ship Trap Island

200
Writing that comes from an authors imagination.
What is Fiction?
200
The turning point when the action reaches a peak and the outcome of the conflict is decided.
What is the climax?
200
The conflict is within the characters mind.
What is internal conflict?
200
The narrator is telling the story. You will see"they, he, she, him, her, them" as pronouns.
What is 3rd person point of view?
200

What is the climax of Marigolds?

What is Lizabeth destroying the marigold fields.
300
It is the time and place at which the events of the story happen.
What is the setting?
300
Sets the stage for the story. Characters are introduced, the setting is described , and the conflict begins to unfold.
What is the exposition?
300
The main character in a work of literature. The hero.
What is the protagonist?
300
Characters that change dramatically in a story.
What are dynamic characters?
300

What type of conflict was in The Necklace?

What is Person vs. Self (Mental)

400
The sequence of events in a story.
What is the plot?
400
the events that follow the climax and bring us to the resolution. The outcome of the sequence of events.
What is falling action?
400
The vantage point from which a story is told.
What is the point of view?
400
Characters that do not change dramatically or at all in a story.
What are static characters?
400

What type of irony was the Necklace?

What is Situational Irony

500
The moral or lesson the author wants the reader to learn.
What is the theme?
500
Loose ends are tied up.
What is the resolution?
500
The character that is against (or opposes) the protagonist.
What is the antagonist?
500
The complication or struggle in the story.
What is the conflict?
500

What is the exposition of the Scarlet Ibis?

What is late 19th century, paris. Madame Mathalide Loisel.

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