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| Short story definition | read one sitting/fiction/under 10,000 words/oldest form |
| Characterization:AWARE | character's appearance, words, actions, reactions of others to character, character's emotions and thoughts |
| plot | what happens in a story |
| plots have 5 parts | exposition; rising action;climax;falling action; resolution |
| conflict - define | problem in story |
| 4 types of conflict | man vs. man/society/himself/self |
| climax | high point of story |
| setting | where story takes place/year/month, etc. |
| mood | how story makes the reader feel |
| tone | how the author feels about his subject |
| author creates tone in 3 ways | action/details they choose/style |
| point of view | viewpoint from which the story is told |
| 1st person viewpoint | uses "I" only get one perspective |
| 3rd person omniscient viewpoint | "all knowing" outside narrator who sees everyone's thoughts/feelings |
| limited omniscient viewpoint | still uses "he" "she"/outside narrator/only get 1 person's thoughts |
| suspense | anxiety/tension created by events in the story |
| foreshadowing | hint of what is to come/creats suspense |
| theme | abstract - main idea or message about life the story presents |
| symbol - symbolism | something represents something/stands for |
| protagonist | main character trying to reach a goal |
| antagonist | character or force that opposes or works against main character |
| flashback | entire story shifts back in time/new setting |
| 7 elements of short story | plot/setting/characterization/mood/tone/conflict/pt. of view |
| verbal irony | speaker or character says the opposite of what he/she really means |
| situational irony | something takes place that a character or reader does not expect to happen |
| dramatic irony | reader knows something that a character does not |
