English Short stories

Cards (31)

  • Setting: the place or type of surroundings where something is positioned or where an event takes place
  • Plot: what happens in the story, the action of the story
  • Exposition: Introduction of essential information and context in a narrative
  • Inciting Incident: the action/comment/event that gets the story going
  • Rising Action: The series of events in a narrative that builds tension and develops the conflict, leading to the cliimax
  • Climax: is the most intense moment in the story where the conflict reachest its highest point before being resolved
  • Falling Action: Occurs after the climax, where the story's tension decreases as event unfold towards the resolution
  • Resolution: Is the end of the story where the main conflict is solved, wrapping up the narrative
  • Protagonist: the leading character or one of the major characters in a play, film, novel, etc.
  • Antagonist: The person working against the main character
  • Flat Character: Simplified, one-dimensional figures that lack depth and complexity.
  • Round Characters: Individuals that are multidimensional, fully developed, and complex.
  • Stereotype Characters: Characters with typical traits, lacking depth.
  • Theme: The main idea of a story, generally the author's claim about & the world in which we live in
  • P.O.V: The narrator through whose eyes the story is told
  • First Person: the story is told from the p.o.v of the narrator who uses "I. Readers know only the narrator knows
  • Limited Omniscient: Told in 3rd person, thoughts & feelings of other characters are known to readers only if author allows it
  • Omniscient: Narrator can move from character to character. We see and hear all, including the thoughts, feelings, and motivation of others
  • Objective: the narrator in this point of view can only record what is seen and heard. Like a video camera, the narrator cannot tell what is going on inside the characters heads and hearts, or other locations. The reader is a spectator with no inside info
  • Foreshadowing: A hint or suggestion of something to come in the future.
  • Suspense: A feeling of excitement and tension that builds up in the reader as they wait to find out what happens.
  • Symbolism: A person, place, thing or event that is used to represent something else
  • Mood: The atmosphere/feeling that is dominant in a piece of writing
  • Tone: The authors attitudes towards the subject matter that they are writing about or towered the reader or audience. E.g. serious, somber, grave, gleeful, sarcastic, etc.
  • Metaphor: A figure of speech that compares two things that are not literally the same. E.g. Pearl is such a gem
  • Irony: using word/phrase to mean the opposite of its normal meaning
  • Dramatic Irony: Is when the audience knows something that the characters do not
  • Situational Irony: Is when the opposite of what is expected happens
  • Verbal Irony: Is when a person says ones thing but means the opposite
  • Flashback: An event or scene that took place at an earlier point in a story
  • Imagery: A technique used to describe and appeal to the senses