Title of Story: ____________________________
Student Name: ____________________________
Short Story Elements - analysis
Character:
- Protagonist:
- Antagonist:
Plot:
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Exposition (Introduction):
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Rising Action (includes conflict):
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Climax:
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Falling Action:
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Resolution:
Conflict:
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External conflict:
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Internal conflict:
Point of View:
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First Person:
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Third Person Limited:
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Third Person Omniscient:
Irony:
Foreshadowing:
Setting:
Theme:
Suspense:
Short Story Elements – Vocabulary
Character: Person in a story
- Protagonist: Person who drives the action- main character
- Antagonist: The opponent of the main character- causes the conflict
Character Analysis:
Static: stays the same Dynamic: Changes
Flat: stereotyped/one sided Round: multi-faceted
Plot: the events that make up a story
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Exposition (Introduction): situation, setting, characters
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Rising Action: conflicts and complicating events that lead up to the climax
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Climax: Tense minute where the reader realizes the outcome
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Falling action: results of the climax and previous decisions (very short in a short story)
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Resolution/conclusion/denouement: all the problems are done (good or bad)
Conflict: struggle or problem between opposing forces
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External conflict: struggle is with an outside force
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Internal conflict: struggle takes place within the character (greed, jealousy, etc…)
Narrator: Person created by the author to tell you the story
Point of View: vantage point from which the narrator tells the story
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First Person: the narrator is in the story (uses I)
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Third Person Limited: narrator is not in the story but zooms in on ONE character who is (like a parrot on his shoulder – uses he, she, they)
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Third Person Omniscient: not in the story, but all knowing narrator, can tell what every character is thinking and doing
Foreshadowing: hints or clues about what is coming later
Setting: time and place of a story
Theme: the main idea of a story
Suspense: anxiety about what will happen next in a story
Related Readings: Lang. Of Literature (orange textbook)
Character Development - pages 321 to 323
Theme – pages 589 to 590
Point of View – pages 813 to 814
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