Short Story Elements

This is the time and place of the story's action.

• conflict

• setting

• point of view

• resolution

What is plot in a short story?

• where the story happens
• the events that happen in order in a story
• the struggle in the story
• the narrator's role in a story

What is the part of the plot called that gives readers background information about the story and characters?

• resolution
• inciting incident
• exposition
• rising action

What is the rising action in a short story?

• the background information 
• the events that lead up to the climax
• the point of highest action
• the turning point 

When the narrator of the story is a character in the story it is written in the ___ point of view

• 1st person
• 3rd Limited person
• 3rd Person Omncient

The narrator can read the thoughts and feelings of one character in a story

• First Person Point of View
• Third Person Limited Point of View
• Third Person Omniscient Point of View
• Third Person Objective Point of View

Which of these would be an example of an internal conflict?

• The main character has to deal with a bully.
• Two groups of characters get in a fight.
• A main character is lost and has to find her way home.
• A character is not sure whether she should tell a teacher when a friend cheats on a test.

Which of the following is the "turning point" of the story?

• denouement
• climax
• rising action
• inciting incident

Taking an object and giving it human characteristics:

• figurative language
• personification
• onomatopoeia
• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

"The table sighed under the weight of Anna's books."

• Simile
• Hyperbole
• Personification