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Elements of Fiction
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Short Stories
100
People, animals, or imaginary creatures that take part in the action of the story.
What is What are The characters of a story?
100
Part where the story becomes more complex.
What is the rising action?
100
The struggle between a character and something outside the character.
What is external conflict?
100

The fourth concern of the Human Condition

What is the inevitability of isolation?

100

Main characters in "Why I learned to Cook"

Who are Yasi and Hannah?

200
Writing that comes from an authors imagination.
What is Fiction?
200
The turning point when the action reaches a peak and the outcome of the conflict is decided.
What is the climax?
200
The conflict is within the characters mind.
What is internal conflict?
200

detailed language that uses the five senses

What is imagery?

200

Setting of "Checkouts"

What is Grocery Store in Cincinnati?

300
It is the time and place at which the events of the story happen.
What is the setting?
300
Sets the stage for the story. Characters are introduced, the setting is described , and the conflict begins to unfold.
What is the exposition?
300
The main character in a work of literature. The hero.
What is the protagonist?
300

when you give an animal or object qualities or abilities that only a human can have

What is personification?

300

Was the conflict in "Why I Learned to Cook" internal or external

What is internal?

400
The sequence of events in a story.
What is the plot?
400
the events that follow the climax and bring us to the resolution. The outcome of the sequence of events.
What is falling action?
400

a person, object, place, event, or action that suggests more than its literal meaning.

What is a symbol?

400

To read between the lines of the text

What is to infer?

400

How long did the girl with the orange bow and the bag boy go without seeing eachother?

What is 4 weeks?

500
The moral or lesson the author wants the reader to learn.
What is the theme?
500
Loose ends are tied up.
What is the resolution?
500
The character that is against (or opposes) the protagonist.
What is the antagonist?
500
The complication or struggle in the story.
What is the conflict?
500

What can the reader infer the mood is in the first half of "The Flowers"?

What is "lighthearted"?