Climax: Falling Action: Resolution

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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:
  

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  External conflict:
  
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  Internal conflict:
  

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  First Person:
  
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  Third Person Limited:
  
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  Third Person Omniscient:
  

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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)
  

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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…)
  

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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)
  

• Third Person Omniscient: not in the story, but all knowing narrator, can tell what every character is thinking and doing