The Elements of a Short Story
A quick focused journey that uses elements of fiction to make it interesting
The part of speech for hedge
Verb
Going back in time from the present place in your story
Flashback
The beginning of the book that sets up the story and the characters
Exposition
A long work of fiction
A novel
The people or animals in the story
Characters
mental or emotional agitation
Definition of personification
Giving human qualities to non living things
The most intense, exciting, or impotant part of the story
A short story
A brief work of fiction
Plot
Definition of secession
formal withdrawal from an organization
A word used to describe a sound
Onomatopoeia
Rising Actions
Literary nonfiction
Has elements of fiction
The central message expressed in a story
Theme
a deserved penalty or punishment
Comeuppance
Definition of colloquialism
Words and expressions that are used in everyday speech
Falling actions
The parts after the climax that lead to the resolution
True stories that only have real life facts and they give instructions, show directions, explain rules, or provide other types of information that help you complete procedures
Functional Texts
The main problem or struggle that charcters face
Conflict
Stripped of hopes or optomistic notions
Disillusioned
The narrators thoughts, feelings, opinions, attitude, or emotion that the author brings into the story
Tone
Resolution
The new normal or end of a story
Longer than short story and shorter than a novel
Novella