SHORT STORY ELEMENTS

Is any character who by his contrast to another character brings out the personality of the latter.

The leading character struggles with his physical strength against other men, forces of nature, or animals.

PATHETIC FALLACY is a literary device involving the personification of nature.

The appearance of being true or real is called verisimilitude.

Man vs. Society - The leading character struggles against ideas, practices, or customs of other people.

Is any statement which appears self-contradictory but has, in fact, real sense.

Plot can be defined as

This is the final outcome or untangling of events in the story is called...

_________represents any event occurring before the main action of a narrative.

The story is told through the eyes of a child is which POV?

Usually the setting takes place with the _____________ of the story

My heart is a little painted poem.

This is the highest point of interest and the turning point of the story.

A story (writing) in which specific characters are intended to represent general truths about human experiences.

A section at the end of a book or play that serves as a conclusion to what has happened.

When the reader or audience knows something that a character in the story does not know.

The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses or sentences.

The ivory teeth within the jaw / Rattled aloud, like dice.

Refers to an expression which was once original, but has since been used so frequently that it has become trite.

"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools."

A Latin term meaning in the thick of things .

Death will wait until you come.

A struggle within one's self is called an internal conflict.

When the writer shows a difference between the expected result of some action or situation and its actual result.

Is an inoffensive expression used in place of one which is clearer, but disagreeable

Logos is a Greek word meaning ‘a word’ or ‘reason’. In rhetoric, it is an appeal to logic and reason.

Literature is that whose purpose is to instruct as well as entertain.

Ugly Pretty is an example of

POV can move from character to character, event to event, having free access to the thoughts, & feelings.

____________ word meaning ‘experience’, and it is used in speech as an appeal to the emotions of the audience.

The tragic flaw of a character, a flaw which leads to his eventual downfall or destruction.

I found her dancing like a leaf / And singing like a bird.

The pen is mightier than the sword.

Is any recurring image or idea in an artistic work which serves to unify its diverse elements.

A many-sided personalities that change, for better or worse, by the end of the story is called a dynamic.

The opposer of the main character is called

When the writer says one thing but means something entirely different IS CALLED...

The beginning of the story where the characters and the setting is revealed is called an exposition.

______means of convincing an audience of the credibility of the speaker, or the credibility of the argument.

A brilliant detective, scrooge, cruel stepmother, etc. is called a round character.

Is the suggested meaning of words because of personal or cultural experience.

The leading character struggles against fate, or of the life facing him/her.

A struggle with a force outside one's self is called