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Short Story Vocabulary

Total questions: 12

Worksheet time: 6mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the set up or the beginning of a short story called? (Hint: reader is exposed to the setting, characters and beginning of conflict)

a)

Resolution

b)

Exposition

c)

Rising Action

d)

Conflict

2.

What are the series of events in a short story called?

a)

Rising Action

b)

Conflict

c)

Plot

d)

Characterization

3.

Which type of characterization requires the reader to infer what the character is like based on their dialogue and actions?

a)

Direct Characterization

b)

Indirect Characterization

c)

Dynamic Characterization

d)

Round Characterization

4.

What is the term for a character who does NOT change throughout the course of a literary work? The character is usually not a highly developed character.

a)

Dynamic character

b)

Round Character

c)

Indirect Character

d)

Flat Character

5.

What is the term for when the audience or the reader knows something the characters in the literary work do not?

a)

Dramatic Irony

b)

Conflict

c)

Climax

d)

Denouement

6.

In "Those Three Wishes," Judith Gorog wrote "Melinda Alice was witty and cruel." This type of characterization is called...

a)

Indirect characterization

b)

Flat characterization

c)

Direct characterization

d)

Round characterization

7.

A word that means the same as resolution, the end of conflict, is...

a)

rising action

b)

climax

c)

denouement

d)

dramatic irony

8.

The moral or message inferred from reading a literary work is called the...

a)

conflict

b)

resolution

c)

main idea

d)

theme

9.

If a character changes in some way throughout a literary work, the character is referred to as...

a)

dynamic

b)

angular

c)

flat

d)

dull

10.

The problem in a literary work is referred to as the...

a)

antagonist

b)

conflict

c)

resolution

d)

denouement

11.

The main character is a literary work is referred to as the...

a)

protagonist

b)

antagonist

c)

round character

d)

flat character

12.

The cause of the conflict in a literary work is referred to as the...

a)

antihero

b)

anthesis

c)

antagonist

d)

anticharacter