Short Story Elements Review

A _______________________________ is a BRIEF work of FICTION-you can read it in one sitting that focuses on ONE or TWO CHARACTERS and has ONE SINGLE PROBLEM that is solved in the end.

• novel

• book

• short story

The TIME (when it happens) and the PLACE (where it happens) that a story happens

• Setting

• Conflict

• Man vs. Man

The ____________________ the story is told from refers to who is telling the story.

• Rising Action

• Point of View

• Climax

This point of view is when the author is telling the story and uses pronouns such as "I", "me", "my", "us", "we"

• third person

• omniscient

• first person

This point of view is when someone else tells the story and uses pronouns such as: he, she, they, them.

• first

• third

• omniscient

The main character in a story

• antagonist

• protagonist

• bad guy

The person or force that goes against the main character

• protagonist

• antagonist

• villain

A struggle between opposing forces

• conflict

• setting

• exposition

Man vs. Himself is an example of what kind of conflict?

• internal

• external

Man vs. Man is an example of what type of conflict?

• internal

• external