Story Elements
Short Stories
OMAM
Interviews/Misc.
Irony/Symbolism
100

A character who changes throughout a story

Dynamic character

100

The present Diane got from her "friend" at her birthday party was

An empty box

100

Character who is big, caring, loves small fuzzy animals, and isn't very intelligent

Lenny

100

A short poetry form that requires us to be VERY intentional with our words (Hint: all of us wrote several of these the day we studied them)

Haiku

100

Symbolism can be defined as

A person, place, or thing that represents something more than itself

200

The main message you take from a story or an idea the author is trying to communicate (hint: NOT a moral)

Theme

200

Alice had to fight this monster or antagonist in Tough Alice

The Jabberwock

200

Character who is short, clever, resourceful, and takes care of his friend

George

200

POV that uses words like he/she/they

Third person

200

The symbol in Somebody's Son was.....

The white flag(s)

300

A character who does NOT change throughout a story

Static character

300

In Contents of a Dead Man's Pockets, the main character does what to retrieve a work paper that blew away

Climbs out onto his window ledge eleven stories high

300

A character described as flirty and needy and is always seeking attention from the ranchers

Curley's wife

300

Literary term used when a word describes or imitates a sound

Onomatopoeia

300

Irony can be defined as

Something happening that you don't expect OR something opposite of your expectations happens

400
There are generally two types of characters in every story. One of them is trying to make progress and one of them is getting in the way of that progress. What are they called?

Protagonist and antagonist

400

In The Birthday Box, Katie received what in her last birthday present from her mom

Nothing (another empty box)

400

George had to kill Lenny because...

He was afraid of being associated with the murder of Curley's wife and/or if he had to die, George wanted to be the one to do it

400

Holocaust survivor, Helen Handler, first arrived at what concentration camp

Auschwitz

400

The biggest irony in The Necklace was ......

The necklace was fake

500

A plotline consists of which five parts

Introduction, rising action, climax, falling action, conclusion

500
The noise that the "madman"/narrator kept hearing in The Telltale Heart

The beating of the old man's "hideous heart"

500

Two themes from OMAM include

Loneliness, dreams, friendship, the status of women at the time, fate, violence and its effects

500

Tony Hawk expresses a certain routine that he uses to "suit up" for a skating competition which is....

Putting on all of his equipment left to right

500

How many types of irony are there and can you name them (EXTRA POINTS)

Three: verbal, situational, dramatic