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Types of Short Fiction
Elements of a Story
Figurative Language Tools
Characters
Funny Words
100
Exaggerated, bigger-than-life stories about characters who lived during the days of the American frontier
What are Tall Tales?
100
The sequence of events in a story.
What is Plot
100
Comparing two unlike things in literature.
What is Metaphor?
100
Telling the reader directly about a character's personality.
What is Direct Characterization?
100
The use of words to imitate sounds such as buzz, hiss, or pop.
What is Onomatopoeia?
200
Stories relating mysterious pranks of supernatural "spirits" or beings.
What are Fairy Tales?
200
The turning point of the story. (A Ha Moment)
What is Climax?
200
Comparing two things using "like" or "as".
What is Simile?
200
The act of creating a character.
What is Characterization?
200
A deliberate exaggeration or overstatement.
What is Hyperbole?
300
Short stories written in poetic form.
What are Narrative Poems?
300
A person, animal, or being that takes part in the action of a literary work.
What is a Character?
300
Creating word pictures for the reader using the 5 senses.
What is Imagery?
300
A character who stays the same throughout the story.
What is a Static Character?
300
Repetition of initial consonant sounds in writing such as "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers."
What is Alliteration?
400
A story told in action by actors and actresses that impersonate the characters.
What is Drama?
400
The TIME and PLACE of the action in a literary work.
What is Setting?
400
Anything that stands for or represents something else.
What is a Symbol?
400
The main character or hero in the story.
What is the Protagonist?
400
Fusing together two contradictory or opposing ideas such as "happy grief" or "jumbo shrimp".
What is Oxymoron?
500
Stories where the meaning lies outside the story itself.
What are Parables?
500
Conversation between characters.
What is Dialogue?
500
A contrast between what is and what seems to be.
What is Irony?
500
The reason that explains a character's thoughts, feelings, actions, or behaviors.
What is Motivation?
500
All knowing--when the point of view/narrator knows everything that is going to happen in the story.
What is Omniscient?