Short Stories

a struggle between opposing forces, people, or ideas in a story, novel, play, or narrative poem

• climax

• Conflict

• Plot

• point of view

Person v person; person v society; person v nature; person v self

• tone

• setting

• Plot

• Conflict forms

the arrangement of incidents, details, and elements of conflict in a story

• exposition

• climax

• Plot

• falling action

background information that establishes setting and introduces the main characters

• Exposition

• Rising action

• Falling action

• Resolution

events that build conflict and tension

• Falling action

• Climax

• Rising action

• resolution

explains the consequences of the climactic decision

• Falling action

• exposition

• resolution

• rising action

crucial moment in the story; the turning point for the protagonist

• resolution

• exposition

• rising action

• climax

the story's central problem is finally solved

• falling action

• resolution

• climax

• exposition

hints or clues; a shadow of things to come

• setting

• resolution

• foreshadowing

• characterization

the techniques an author uses to develop the personalities of fictional characters so that they seem believable

• characterization

• Point of view

• foreshadowing

• antagonist