Ingredients of Short Stories
Point of View
Conflict
Plot
Misc
100
Made up of the time, place and weather contained within a story.
What is setting?
100
All knowing narrator who uses pronouns like "he, she".
What is third person omniscient?
100
Define conflict.
What is a struggle between opposing forces?
100
Define plot.
What is the events that happen in a story?
100
True or False: Short stories are pieces of fiction.
What is True. A short story is fiction
200
The outcome of the conflict is called the ...
What is the resolution?
200
When the narrators uses pronouns like "I".
What is first person?
200
Name the two types of conflict that relate to living things.
What is human vs. self/human and human vs. nature.
200
The highest emotional point in a story.
What is the climax.
200
When the events of the story are told in the order that they occurred.
What is chronological order?
300
The narration of the story is referred to as the ...
Point of view.
300
This point of view is restricted and uses pronouns like "he and she".
What is third person limited?
300
The struggle that occurs within the heart and mind of the character.
What is human vs. self?
300
Events leading to the climax of a story.
What is the rising action?
300
When the story is interrupted to demonstrate a moment from the past.
What is a flashback?
400
The subject or main idea of a story.
What is theme?
400
"Scientific" narration that uses pronouns like "he and she".
What is third person objective?
400
Name the two types of conflict related to elements external to the character.
What is human vs. society, human vs. supernatural, human vs. nature.
400
The introduction of the characters and situation.
What is exposition?
400
Conversations between characters.
What is dialogue?
500
The creation of a fictional character.
What is characterization?
500
This point of view uses pronouns like "you" to address the reader directly.
What is second person?
500
What (often) follows conflict?
What is resolution?
500
Follows the climax of a story.
What is the falling action?
500
A radical change in the direction or expected outcome of a work of fiction.
What is a twist ending?
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