Parts of a Short Story

The central/main message expressed in a story

• theme

• universal theme

• irony

• motivation

The reason(s) that explain why characters act as they do.

• motivation

• irony

• resolution

• foreshadowing

The events that give the reader background information needed to understand the story. The introduction to the story usually reveals the setting, the major characters, and the basic situation.

• Resolution

• Rising Action

• Personification

• Exposition

The major events that develop the

plot and lead to the climax; the conflict(s) and events get more complicated.

• resolution

• rising action

• exposition

• falling action

The time and place of a story/narrative is...

• Conflict

• Plot

• Theme

• Setting

What part of the plot diagram is illustrated in step 6?

• Exposition

• Rising Action

• Climax

• Falling Action

• Resolution

What part of the plot diagram is illustrated in step 4?

• Exposition

• Rising Action

• Climax

• Falling Action

• Resolution

When would the CONFLICT be introduced and get worse in the story?

• Exposition

• Rising Action

• Climax

• Falling Action

• Resolution

The turning point of a story, where the main character faces the biggest obstacle.

• A) Climax

• B) Exposition

• C) Resolution

• D) Rising Action

The struggle between opposing forces in a story, often driving the plot.

• A) Theme

• B) Conflict

• C) Setting

• D) Characterization