Short Story Terms
This is the term for the part of the plot graph where the conflict is developing more and more as the story progresses toward the climax.
What is the rising action?
This is the term for a piece of punctuation that creates a natural pause during a complete sentence.
What is a comma?
A simile is a comparison between two unlike things using the words _________ or ___________.
What are 'like' or 'as'?
In the nursery rhyme Humpty Dumpty, these two groups couldn't put Humpty back together again.
Who are all the kings horses and all the kings men?
This is the term for the method of narration where the narrator only has access to the thoughts and ideas of one character in the story.
What is third person limited narration?
This piece of punctuation is used to replace missing numbers, like when expressing the year as '21.
What is an apostrophe?
This is the term for an object that represents an important idea or emotion throughout the story, like a dove representing peace or a heart representing love.
What is a symbol?
This is the only natural food that never spoils or expires.
What is honey?
Name a form of conflict that we did not see arise in the short story "The Dinner Party".
We did not see person vs. technology or person vs. the supernatural.
This piece of punctuation can be used to introduce a list or explanation.
What is a colon?
This is the term for an indirect comparison between two unlike things, such as a "couch potato" - comparing a lazy person to a potato growing on the couch.
What is a metaphor?
This chocolate bar is named after the horse belonging to the inventor.
What is Snickers?
This is the term for paying attention to what a character says, does and thinks in order to determine what his/her personality traits are, because we are not being told about them explicitly by the narrator.
What is indirect characterization?
This piece of punctuation can be used to replace the word 'and' when connecting two complete and related sentences.
What is a semicolon?
This is the term for a situation where the outcome is the exact opposite of what you would expect to happen, such as a firefighter's house burning down.
What is irony?
These are the four ingredients included on a BLAT sandwich.
What are bacon, lettuce, avocado and tomato?
This is the term for strategic creative decisions made by the author to give hints and clues about how he/she feels about whatever he/she is writing about.
What is the tone?
Name the two pieces of punctuation on our foldable that should never appear in your own formal academic writing.
Exclamation mark and dash
This is the term for words that sound like the noises for which they are named, such as boom, crunch or squish.
What is onomatopoeia?
This is the astrological (horoscope) sign for anyone who is born between November 22 and December 21.
What is Sagittarius?