Basic Elements of a Short Story

It is considered as the main character or most important of all the characters.

• Protagonist

• Antagonist

• Character

• Setting

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The place and time when the story happens is called __________.

• Character

• Plot

• Resolution

• Setting

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This is the solution to the problem in the story.

• Climax

• Rising action

• Exposition

• Resolution

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This the central idea in a short story and a general truth.

• Plot

• Point of view

• Theme

• Climax

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The narrator is not in the story and tells the story using the pronouns 'She' or 'He'.

• First Person

• Second Person

• Limited Third Person

• Omniscient Third Person

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This is the way the story is told or narrated.

• Point of view

• Theme

• Conflict

• Plot

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It is the character that challenges the main character.

• Protagonist

• Antagonist

• Flat character

• Round character

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This point occurs after the climax as the problems in the story start to work themselves out.

• Exposition

• Rising action

• Climax

• Falling Action

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Every story needs to have a problem and this problem is called __________.

• Resolution

• Conflict

• Theme

• Point of View

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The narrator participates in and tells the story using the pronoun 'I'.

• First person

• Second Person

• Third Person

• Omniscient

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