1S AP Lit [20-21] Short Story Lit Term Quiz

The author tells the story, using the third person, but is limited to a complete knowledge of one character in the story and tells us only what that one character thinks, feels, sees, or hears.

• Foreshadowing

• MOOD

• Limited Omniscient POV

• Characterization

The final part of a play, movie, or narrative in which the strands of the plot are drawn together and matters are

explained or resolved.

• Falling Action/Resolution

• Complications [Rising Action]

• Omniscient POV

• Inciting Moment/Incident [Conflict]

When a story told by the author using the third person; the author's knowledge, control, and prerogatives are

unlimited; authorial subjectivity.

• Dramatic Irony

• Exposition

• Omniscient POV

• Figurative language

In general, the perspective from which a story is told

• Exposition

• Omniscient POV

• Omniscient POV

• Point of View

Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader. (established by details of setting) - a literary element that

evokes certain feelings or vibes in readers through words and descriptions

• Foreshadowing

• MOOD

• Characterization

• Limited Omniscient POV

Part of the plot structure where the highest point of interest occurs and where a hint of the end is given.

• Complications [Rising Action]

• Exposition

• Inciting Moment/Incident [Conflict]

• Climax

A person, place or object which has a meaning in itself but suggests other meanings as well

• Symbolism

• Exposition

• Climax

• Epigraph

The author identifies with or disappears within a major or minor character; the story is told using the first person "I"

• Limited Omniscient POV

• Foreshadowing

• First Person POV

• Verbal Irony

Irony in which a person says or writes one thing and means another, or uses words to convey a meaning that is the

opposite of the literal meaning. [Innuendos and Sarcasm]

• Characterization

• Foreshadowing

• First Person POV

• Verbal Irony

Part of the plot structure that establishes setting and mood, characters, conflict, point of view and tone.

• Climax

• Complications [Rising Action]

• Exposition

• Inciting Moment/Incident [Conflict]