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| short story | a short ficitonal prose narrative; 10-20 book pages; more limited than a novel |
| characters | a peron, animal, or thing in a story or play |
| setting | the time and place of story |
| plot | a series of related events that make up a story |
| theme | the main idea of a story; tells what the main character learned about the subject as the conflict was solved |
| exposition | the basic situation at the beginning of a story that tells who the characters are and what the setting is |
| conflict | a struggle or clash between opposing characters or forces |
| complications | situations tha arise that make it difficult to solve the conflict |
| resolution | the final part of the story after the problems are solved and the story is closed |
| climax | the most exciting, most suspenseful monent in the story when the outcome is decided one way or another |
| resolution | the final part of the story after the problems are solved and the story is closed |
| external conflict | a problelm in the story where the character struggles against some outside force, another character, or society |
| internal conflict | a problem that takes place within the character's own mind between opposing needs, desires, or emotions |
| point of view | the vantage point from which a story is told |
| first person point of view | one of the characters is telling the story, using the pronoun "I" |
| third person limited point of view | the narrator focuses on the thoughts and feelings of just one character, we are observing the action through the eyes of one of the characters in the story |
| omniscient point of view | the all-knowing point of view, the narrator knows everything about the characters and their problems, but the narrator is not in the story |
| main character | a character in the story who has a problem to solve |
| major character | characters in the story who either help to solve the problem or make it worse |
| static character | a character who does not change much in the course of the story |
| dynamic character | a character who changes as a result of the story's events |
| minor character | a person in the story who does not have an impact on the outcome of the story |
| third person objective point of view | the point of view in which we do not know any of the characters thoughts or feelings |
| second person point of view | the narrator tells the story to another character using "you" |
