Short Story Elements � Vocabulary

							              Title of Story: ____________________________
              Student Name: ____________________________
                    Short Story Elements - analysis
Character:
   - Protagonist:
   - Antagonist:
Plot:
  - Exposition (Introduction):
  - Rising Action (includes conflict):
  - Climax:
  - Falling Action:
  - Resolution:
Conflict:
  - External conflict:
  - Internal conflict:
Point of View:
  - First Person:
  - Third Person Limited:
  - 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
  - Exposition (Introduction): situation, setting, characters
  - Rising Action: conflicts and complicating events that lead up
    to the climax
  - Climax: Tense minute where the reader realizes the outcome
  - Falling action: results of the climax and previous decisions
    (very short in a short story)
  - Resolution/conclusion/denouement: all the problems are done
    (good or bad)
Conflict: struggle or problem between opposing forces
  - External conflict: struggle is with an outside force
  - 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
  - First Person: the narrator is in the story (uses I)
  - 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

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