Short Story Terms Test

Author or narrator makes direct statements about a character's traits.

• direct characterization

• point of view

• third person limited

• implied theme

character's personality is revealed through character's own words, thoughts, and actions / or through words, thoughts, actions of other characters

• direct characterization

• indirect characterization

• exposition

• inciting incident

perspective from which the story is told

• third person limited

• first person

• point of view

• exposition

narrator is a character in the story; uses "I"

• first person

• third person limited

• third person omniscient

• plot

narrator reveals thoughts and feelings of only one character

• third person omniscient

• first person

• indirect characterization

• third person limited

narrator reveals thoughts and feelings of everybody

• third person limited

• third person omniscient

• stated theme

• inciting incident

must be inferred by considering all the elements of a story and asking what message about life is conveyed

• implied theme

• rising action

• resolution

• onomatopoeia

main idea directly presented in a story

• plot

• internal conflict

• stated theme

• resolution

sequence of events in a story

• plot

• inciting incident

• rising action

• climax

character struggles against an outside force (character, nature, society, or fate)

• internal conflict

• climax

• external conflict

• resolution