Short Story Final Assessment Practice

Question 1

A situation or problem a character has to try and resolve

Accepted Answer

Conflict

Question 2

The events and issues in the story begin to resolve themelsves

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Falling Action

Question 3

Recurring element that is meant to be symbolic or stand for something more than what it is

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Motif

Question 4

A character that has many different character traits; we know a lot about them

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Round character

Question 5

The highest point of interest in the story, turning point of the story

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Climax

Question 6

The main character struggles against fate or the circumstances of life facing him/her

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Man vs. Circumstances

Question 7

The events of the story become complicated and the conflict is revealed

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Rising Action

Question 8

Revealing information about a character & personality through their thoughts, words, actions

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Indirect Characterization

Question 9

There is a contradiction between what we expect to happen and what actually happens

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Situational Irony

Question 10

the conflict or problem is introduced in the story

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Inciting Incident

Question 11

A scene that interrupts the action to flash backwards and tell what happened at an earlier time

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Flash backward

Question 12

The main character struggles against ideas, practices, or customs in their society

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Man vs. Society

Question 13

The way a character looks, talks, acts, or thinks

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Characterization

Question 14

The attitude a writer takes towards subjects or characters, shown through word choice, details

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Tone

Question 15

Final outcome or untangling of events in a story

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Conclusion/Denouement

Question 16

The beginning of the story where the characters and the setting is revealed

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Introduction/Exposition

Question 17

The change in a person from the beginning to the end of the story

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Character Development

Question 18

the author's underlying meaning; the main idea the author is trying to explain

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Theme

Question 19

The people in a work of fiction

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Character

Question 20

The main character struggles against nature, a natural disaster, or animals

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Man vs. Nature

Question 21

The narrator never tells anything about what the characters think or feel, an observer

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Objective Point of View

Question 22

The main character in a story who is faced with a conflict - usually the hero or "good" guy

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Protagonist

Question 23

The time and location in which a story takes place

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Setting

Question 24

The main character's struggle takes place in his/her own mind

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Man vs. Self

Question 25

A struggle with a force outside of the character

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External Conflict

Question 26

When someone says one thing, but really means another

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Verbal Irony

Question 27

The author arranges events to develop the basic idea

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Plot

Question 28

The main character struggles with another character

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Man vs. Man

Question 29

A character that only has one or two character traits; we don't know a lot about them

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Flat Character

Question 30

Narrator is NOT a character in the story, an outside voice telling us how the characters feel

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Third Person Omniscient Point of View

Question 31

One of the characters is telling the story through their perspective, through their own eyes

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First Person Point of View

Question 32

Person, place, thing, or even that stands for itself and for something beyond itself

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Symbol

Question 33

A character that does not change much throughout the story

Accepted Answer

Static Character

Question 34

A story's atmosphere or the feeling it evokes; often created by the story's setting

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Mood

Question 35

A character who changes throughout the story because of the story's events

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Dynamic Character

Question 36

A scene that interrupts the present action of the plot and goes into the future

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Flash forward

Question 37

Person who goes against the main character who may contribute to the conflict - the bad guy

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Antagonist

Question 38

When the audience knows something important that a character in a play or story does not know

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Dramatic Irony

Question 39

A struggle within a character; a character has to make a decision, overcome pain, etc.

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Internal Conflict

Question 40

an idea that applies to anyone regardless of cultural differences or geographic location

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Universal Theme

Question 41

The writer makes direct statements about a character's personality and "tells" about them

Accepted Answer

Direct Characterization

Short Story Final Assessment Practice

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Short Story Final Assessment Practice

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