English Short Story Vocab
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Antagonist | character or force in conflict with the main character |
| Characterization | the act of creating and developing a character. |
| Climax | high point of interest or suspense |
| Conflict | a struggle between opposing forces |
| Exposition | establishes the setting, identifies the characters, and introduces the basic situation. |
| Falling Action | all of the events that occur after the climax in a story. |
| First person | the narrator is a character in the story, we see the story through his or her eyes. |
| Flashback | section of a literary work that interrupts the sequence of events to relate an event from an earlier time. |
| Foreshadowing | use of clues that suggest events that have yet to occur; creates suspense by making the reader wonder what will happen next. |
| Irony | literary technique that involves surprising, interesting, or amusing contradictions |
| Mood | the feeling created in the ready by a literary work or passage. |
| Motivation | reason that explains, or partially explains a character's thoughts, feelings, actions, or speech. |
| Novel | a long work of fiction |
| Personification | a type of figurative language in which a non-human subject is given human characteristics. |
| Plot | the sequence of events in a literary work. |
| Protagonist | the main character in a literary work |
| Resolution | any events that occur during the falling action of a story. |
| Rising Action | all the events that occur before the climax of a story. |
| Setting | time and place of the action |
| Suspense | a feeling of anxious uncertainty about the outcome of events in a literary work. |
| Theme | a central message, concern, or insight into life expressed in a literary work. |
| Third person limited | the narrator is not a character, but he or she presents the story from the perspective of one of the characters. That character's thoughts, feelings, and experiences are the focus of attention. |
| Third person omniscient | the narrator is not a character in the story but views the events of the story through they eyes of more than one of the characters. |
| Tone | the attitude toward the subject and audience conveyed by the language and rhythm of the speaker in a literary work. |
| Author's Purpose | an author's reason for creating a particular work |
| Fact | a statement known to be true |
| Opinion | someone's personal beliefs about a topic |
| Main Idea | (Main Conflict) the central idea in a piece of writing. The point the author wants you to remember |
| Summary | the most important details from a piece of writing |
| Supporting Details | facts, examples, statistics, and quotations used to prove the author's message |
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