Story Parts
The imaginary person who carry out the action of the plot.
What are characters?
A main character who is usually in conflict with an opponent or antagonist.
What is protagonist?
A feeling of uncertainty regarding a story’s action or outcome that is designed to keep the reader’s interest
What is suspense?
The clash of actions, ideas, wills, or forces between characters, or between a character or some inanimate force.
What is an external conflict?
Irony that says the opposite of what is meant
What is verbal irony?
The physical background against which the events of a story take place
What is setting?
An opposing character or rival to the protagonist in a story
The method of presenting the reader with the materials of the story, the perspective from which it is told.
What is point-of-view?
A struggle within the mind, will, or emotions of a character.
What is an internal conflict?
Irony that contrasts what a character says with what a reader or audience knows to be true
What is dramatic irony?
The arrangement of events in a story or play; sequence or related actions
What is plot?
One who remains essentially the same throughout the story
What is a static character?
The ridicule of human folly or vice with the purpose of correcting it
What is satire?
An all-knowing author as narrator who comments freely on the actions and characters as he is able to delve into the minds of all characters and tell what they think or feel.
What is an omniscient point of view?
Irony that presents a discrepancy between appearance and reality or between expectation and fulfillment.
What is irony of situation?
The central idea that gives the story meaning
What is the theme?
One who undergoes some change and is different at the end of the story.
What is a dynamic character?
Give both.
A narrative or description in which the characters, places, and other items are symbols.
A struggle between opposing forces.
What is allegory?
What is conflict?
The author presents the characters in action with no comment, allowing the reader to come to his own conclusions about them.
What is objective point of view?
A method of characterization in which the author tells the reader directly what the character is like.
What is direct exposition?
The manner in which the writer deals with his subject and the general effect it is meant to have on the audience
What is tone?
An imaginative prose narrative written to give the reader entertainment and insight.
What is a short story?
Give both.
A truth expressed in the form of an apparent contradiction
A reference to mythology, history or literary work
What is a paradox?
What is an allusion?
The author tells the story from the viewpoint of one character using either the first or third person
What is limited point of view?
A method of characterization where the author allows the reader to draw his own conclusions from what the character himself does or thinks, or from what the other characters think of him.
What is indirect revelation?