Plot Terms
Point of View Terms
Charactrization Terms
Setting and Theme Terms
Short Stories
100
The essential structure of the story (includes exposition, complication, climax and denouement)
What is plot?
100
Perspective from which readers view events.
What is point of view?
100
A central character.
What is protagonist?
100
Time, place, and social reality of a story.
What is setting?
100
This short story was about a man who is reading the story of two secret lovers killing another man (with a twist).
What is "A Continuity of Parks"?
200
The introduction of setting, characters, and initial conflicts.
What is exposition?
200
An all-knowing narrator who can move through space, time, and inside the minds of multiple characters.
What is third-person omniscient?
200
Characters who remain relatively unchanged.
What is static?
200
The writer's attitude toward the situation and characters.
What is tone?
200
This short story is about all the different ways you can tell a story using details (A, B, C, etc.).
What is "Happy Endings"?
300
The end of the story's major action
What is climax?
300
Restricted to the external experiences and internal thoughts of one character.
What is third-person limited?
300
Characters who go through development.
What is dynamic?
300
The central and unifying idea about human experience that grows out of all the other elements of the story.
What is theme?
300
This short story is about a society where everyone is forced to be "equal" and a boy who doesn't like it.
What is "Harrison Bergeron"?
400
Hints or clues early in the story of events that will occur later.
What is foreshadowing?
400
One of the characters tells the story.
What is first-person?
400
A flat character we recognize from previous reading, viewing, or social experiences.
What is stereotype?
400
A thing, person, or an action that has both a literal significance and an additional abstract meaning.
What is a symbol?
400
This short story is about a town that is always happy all the time, except they have a dark secret!
What is "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas"?
500
An interruption in the forward flow of a story to introduce an episode or scene from the past.
What is flashback?
500
A literary device in which the credibility of the narrator (usually first person) is seriously compromised.
What is unreliable narrator?
500
When we know more about the characters than they know themselves.
What is dramatic irony?
500
A device that suggests a thematic connection between something in the story and something similar in literature, history, or myth.
What is an allusion?
500
This story is about a town that follows an old tradition involving stoning someone to death.
What is "The Lottery"?
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