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EARLY FORMS OF SHORT STORIES
POINT OF VIEW
AUTHORS
ELEMENTS OF THE SHORT STORY
Characterization
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This is the most ancient and primal mode of story telling, being described as narrowly defined and that is a traditional and anonymous story about the exploits of supernatural beings.
What is a Myth
100
In this type of story telling, the narrator is a participant in the action of the story.
What is first-person narration
100
In 1835 "Young Goodman Brown" was written by which author?
Who is Nathaniel Hawthorne
100
The time and place of a story
What is the setting
100
This is the main character of a story
Who is the protagonist
200
One of the earliest narrative forms to develop; a brief often humorous story told to illustrate a moral and the characters in it are typically animals that speak and behave like humans
What is a Fable
200
In this type of story telling, the narrator is a nonparticipant in the story, but instead a voice of authority, which never reveals its source and can usually move from place to place to describe action and report dialogue.
What is third-person narration
200
The "Tell-Tale Heart" was written by this author in 1843
Who is Edgar Allen Poe
200
The overall meaning the reader gets from the story
What is the theme
200
This is the opposing character in a story
Who is the antagonist
300
A short narrative drawn from folklore, the body of traditional wisdom and custom, including songs, stories, myths and proverbs, that people pass down through an oral tradition
What is a Folktale
300
Either through ignorance or impaired mental process, this type of narrator relates events in such a distorted manner that the reader, who has been tipped off, has to literally turn what the narrator is reporting upside down in order to make sense of it
What is unreliable narration
300
"An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" (1891) was written by this Author
Who is Ambrose Bierce
300
This is a sequence of events that "has a beginning, a middle, and an end"
What is the plot
300
These type of characters depend on the depth of detail the writer gives them
What are flat or round characters
400
This is a particular kind of folktale that tells a story or group of stories about a remarkable or important person, event, or place.
What is a Legend
400
This narrator knows everything about the characters and their lives, even perhaps their futures, and may reveal the thoughts of anyone in the story.
What is a omniscient narrator
400
This author not only wrote novels such as "The Great Gatsby" but he also wrote short stories, most notably "Babylon Revisited"
Who is F. Scott Fitzgerald
400
This is a hint at what is to take place later
What is forshadowing
400
These characters are termed depending on the degree to which they change in the course of the story
What are static or dynamic characters
500
This means "new little thing" or "little novelty" in Italian. It also has two meanings in English, one being a more common current usage that refers to a prose narrative that is longer and more complex in plot than a short story but is still briefer than a novel.
What is a novella or nouvelle
500
Here the narrator simply reports dialogue and action with minimal interpretation and no exploring into the characters minds.
What is a dramatic point of view
500
This author is most famous on the short story scene for writing "The Things They Carried"
Who is Tim O'brien
500
This is when a character builds not to a physical confrontation but to a moment of spiritual insight or revelation
What is an epiphany
500
This type of characterization is based on the rationale that they reader is given for a characters actions
What is character motivation