Short Story Terms Review

a character who has a developed personality like a real person

Novels and short stories both contain themes.

when the problems are solved

when the author states what the character's personality is like

man vs. nature, man vs. man, man vs. society etc.

a character who is one-dimensional and has very few character traits

when the author shows you who a character is through the character's words and actions, etc.

the part of the plot right after the climax

any problem in the story

An inherited symbol is something people recognize, like an owl symbolizing wisdom.

Which of the following is NOT a method of indirect characterization?

the character who goes against the main character

One of the characters is telling the story

the part of the plot that introduces the characters, setting and basic information

A/An ____________symbol is one the author creates for a particular story.

the narrator knows more than one character's thoughts

A round character can be static.

The turning point in the story where a major decision has been made

time and place of the story's action

uncertainty the reader feels about what is going to happen next in a story

when the narrator is outside of the story and knows the thoughts of ONE character

the central message/lesson revealed in a literary work

This narrator focuses on one character's thoughts but is not involved in the story.

an object/person, setting, or event that functions as itself but also stands for something else

A character can be both static and dynamic.

An allegory is a story where nearly everything is symbolic of something else.

when something turns out opposite of what the reader expected

clues put into the story to give a reader a hint

This is made up of a series of complications.

a character who does not learn or grow from the events of the plot

I, ME, WE would be pronouns you would likely see with a third person narrator.

A setting can be a symbol.

when the reader knows something the characters don't

the part of the plot when the first conflict occurs

A theme must always be a full sentence.

The present scene is interrupted to go to the past and tell what happened in an earlier time.

Theme is specific to a particular story.

the main/ most important character

a character who changes as a result of the story's events

when you say one thing but mean something completely different

takes place in the character's mind

Every story has just one theme.