WorksheetsShort Story Vocabulary
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 6mins
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)
Resolution
Exposition
Rising Action
Conflict
What are the series of events in a short story called?
Rising Action
Conflict
Plot
Characterization
Which type of characterization requires the reader to infer what the character is like based on their dialogue and actions?
Direct Characterization
Indirect Characterization
Dynamic Characterization
Round Characterization
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.
Dynamic character
Round Character
Indirect Character
Flat Character
What is the term for when the audience or the reader knows something the characters in the literary work do not?
Dramatic Irony
Conflict
Climax
Denouement
In "Those Three Wishes," Judith Gorog wrote "Melinda Alice was witty and cruel." This type of characterization is called...
Indirect characterization
Flat characterization
Direct characterization
Round characterization
A word that means the same as resolution, the end of conflict, is...
rising action
climax
denouement
dramatic irony
The moral or message inferred from reading a literary work is called the...
conflict
resolution
main idea
theme
If a character changes in some way throughout a literary work, the character is referred to as...
dynamic
angular
flat
dull
The problem in a literary work is referred to as the...
antagonist
conflict
resolution
denouement
The main character is a literary work is referred to as the...
protagonist
antagonist
round character
flat character
The cause of the conflict in a literary work is referred to as the...
antihero
anthesis
antagonist
anticharacter
