Short Story Literary Terms Review #2

A work of fiction that can be read in one sitting...

• A short story

• A long story

• A biography

• A Epic Novel

A series of related events that make up the story is the ___.

• Plot

• Rising action

• Climax

• Falling Action

A person in a story, poem, or play is a _______.

• Character

• antagonist

• protagonist

• author or narrator

The main character, or the person who drives the action in a story is the ____________

• Protagonist

• Antagonist

• Speaker

• Narrtor

Whomever or whatever the main character struggles against or opposes is the _________________________

• Narrator

• Speaker

• Protagonist

• Antagonist

When and where the story takes place is the _________.

• Characterization

• Short story

• Setting

• Narrator

___________________is the process of revealing a character's personality.

• Rising action

• Characterization

• Static

• Dyanmic

When we are told directly what kind of person the character is, the writing is using________________.

• Direct Characterization

• Indirect Characterization

• Narration

• Framed story

When a character is reveled to us, and we have to use the way they speak, appearance, inner thoughts, what other characters say about him or show us by his actions, this is _______.

• Direct characterization

• Indirect characterization

• Narration by a primary source

• Fictional story telling

A character that does NOT change throughout a story is ____.

• Dynamic character

• Static character

• Round character

• Flat character