Short story quiz

done without care, in a routine fashion

• petulantly

• trivial

• perfunctory

• profusely

equipment associated with a particular activity

• paraphernalia

• profusely

• perfunctory

• unwittingly

highly colored, reddish; excessively ornate, showy

• flourish

• florid

• exuberant

• frugal

in a wild or disorderly way

• tumultously

• shudder

• savagely

• unwittingly

A character who grows, learns, or changes as a result of the story's action

• flat character

• static character

• dynamic character

• round character

not important, minor, ordinary, commonplace

• fancy

• humdrum

• refined

• trivial

description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste)

• irony

• fancy

• mood

• imagery

a character in fiction whose personality, background, motives, and other features are fully explained by the author

• static character

• round character

• flat character

• dynamic character

a character who does not change during the story

• dynamic character

• flat character

• static character

• round character

A struggle between opposing forces. Person vs. person, Person vs. society, Person vs. self, Person vs. nature

• irony

• climax

• conflict

• setting