SHORT STORY ELEMENTS
CONFLICTS
CHARACTERS
SETTINGS
PLOT PYRAMID
100
a feeling of tension or anxiety that makes the reader want to find out what happens next
What is suspense?
100
main type of conflict in "The Necklace"
What is internal?
100
main character, generally the one the audience roots for
What is a protagonist?
100
takes place in England on a rainy night in the 1940's or 50's?
What is "The Monkey's Paw"?
100
events that occur after the climax and lead up the resolution
What is falling action?
200
hint or clue that suggests something bad is going to happen
What is foreshadowing?
200
the type of conflict in "The Monkey's Paw"
What is external?
200
the opponent of the protagonist
What is the antagonist?
200
in the palace of a plague-stricken city
What is "Masque of the Red Death"?
200
introduces main characters, establishes the setting, and sets the mood
What is exposition?
300
the type of conflict in "Contents of the Dead Man's Pockets?
What is internal and external?
300
describes a character that is one-dimensional
What is flat?
300
Paris probably in the late 1800's
What is "The Necklace"?
300
final disentanglement of the conflict(s)
What is resolution?
400
time and place of the story's action
What is setting?
400
type of conflict in "The Masque of the Read Death"
What is external?
400
describes a character that is fully-developed
What is round?
400
New York City, probably in the 1950's
What is "Contents of the Dead Man's Pockets"?
400
the point of highest emotional intensity
What is climax?
500
any discrepancy between what is and what we expect
What is irony?
500
type of conflict in "The Open Window"
What is internal?
500
describes a character who changes during the course of the story
What is dynamic?
500
an English country home in the late 19th or early 20th century
What is "The Open Window"?
500
events that provide complications of the conflict and lead to the most intense moment of the story
What is rising action?
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