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Elements of a short story
Point of View
Conflict
Plot
Short Stories
100
The time, place and weather of a story
What is the setting
100
The main character of the story.
What is the protagonist.
100
The struggle between two opposing characters in the story.
What is the conflict
100
The sequence of events in the story
What is the plot
100
This story involves a man who accidentally shoots his brother. What is the conflict in The Sniper?
What is man vs. man.
200
The message or lesson that the character learns
what is the theme?
200
The villain or character opposing the main character.
What is the Antagonist
200
Two types of conflict
What is Internal and External.
200
The highest emotional point and where the turn around occurs
What is the Climax.
200
What is the resolution to The Hockey Sweater?
What is Maurice is accepted on his team?
300
What is it called when the setting is first introduced from the plot of the story?
what is the exposition/ introduction
300
The point of the view that uses the pronouns I, me, we.
What is first person
300
When the story comes to an end
What is resolution
300
What is the setting of the Landlady?
What is evening in Bath England.
400
The outcome of the story.
The resolution
400
The narrator knows all the characters thoughts, feelings and motivations.
3rd person Omniscient.
400
The struggle that occurs in someone's own mind.
What is character vs. self.
400
Exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution
What is the plot
400
In the story the Sniper what is happening in Ireland?
What is civil war
500
The events leading up to the climax
What is the rising action
500
The character knows only one or two characters thoughts, feelings and motivations.
What is a limited 3rd person narrator.
500
Two of the four types of conflict.
What is character vs. character, character vs. self, character vs. society, character vs. nature
500
After the climax and before the resolution
What is falling action.
500
What is the rising action in the Landlady?
What is when Weaver enters the house and had tea?