Analyzing Short Stories

The Where and When a story takes place

• Plot

• Setting

• Conflict

• Theme

The struggle between opposing forces

• Resolution

• Climax

• Conflict

• Tone

Having to choose between two opposing desires

• Internal conflict

• External conflict

• Man vs. Man

• Man. vs. Nature

When the narrator is a character in the story

• First Person POV

• Second Person POV

• Omniscient POV

The sequence of events in a story

• Conflict

• Setting

• Characterization

• Plot

The main idea of the story. The life lesson.

• Plot

• Conflict

• Theme

• Mood

When the narrator is able to get into the head of all the characters

• First Person POV

• Second Person POV

• Omniscient POV

Person vs. person, nature, society, etc.

• Direct Characterization

• Indirect Characterization

• Internal Conflict

• External Conflict

The highest point of suspense/turning point of a story

• Theme

• Climax

• Rising Action

• Resolution

 A character that undergoes changes in attitude

• Dynamic

• Static

• Flat

• Antagonist