Short Story Review

The time and place of a story/narrative is...

• Conflict

• Plot

• Theme

• Setting

The events that give the reader background information needed to understand the story. The introduction to the story usually reveals the setting, the major characters, and the basic situation.

• Resolution

• Rising Action

• Personification

• Exposition

The central idea or message of a story/narrative;

universal truth that goes beyond the text and can be inferred by the reader.

• Theme

• Rising Action

• Main Idea

• Personification

The major events that develop the

plot and lead to the climax; the conflict(s) and events get more complicated.

• resolution

• rising action

• exposition

• falling action

What is 1st person point of view?

• Story is told by an outsider and uses He/She

• Story is told by the main character and uses I

• Comparison with like/as

• Exaggeration

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.1.6

What are character traits?

• A character's opinion.
• The things a character says.
• Personality traits for a character.
• What a character looks like.

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.8.3

The sequence of events in a short story, usually divided into five parts.

• plot
• theme
• exposition
• flashback

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.W.5.3A

People or animals who take part in a story’s action.

• indirect characterization
• motivation
• resolution
• characters

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.W.5.9B

The way a writer reveals a character’s personality and qualities.

• characterization
• motivation
• dialect
• rising action

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.W.5.3B

CCSS.W.5.9B

What is the term used to describe the main character struggling against an outside force?

• dependent conflict

• internal conflict

• external conflict

• independent conflict