Short Stories
by: Morganne Jordan
1. Characterization (Direct/indirect)
the process of revealing the personality of a character
E: "She was a large woman"
2. Protagonist
E: Roger from thank you ma'm
3. Antagonist
the person or thing that gets in the way of the main character
E: Like Ms. Jones in thank you ma'm
4. Flat Character
a simple character who does not display internal conflicts
E: like Minho in the maze runner
5. Round Character
a complex character who displays internal conflicts
E: Like bella from Twilight
6. Static Characterization
a character who stays the same throughout a story
e: Like the Prince from Cinderella
7. Dynamic Character
example: Like pedro from Napoleon Dynamite.
8. Internal Conflict
E: like in the hungry games
9. External conflit
example: in the hungry games when they go man vs. man
10. diction
example: Yoda in starwars
11. denotation
example: like "happy -- to not be sad OR to be excited
12. connotation
e: like spiderman
13. First Person Point of View
the vantage point from which a story is told by one character – uses “I”
example: when a narrater speaks.
14. Third Person Limited Point of View
a story is told by a narrator who reveals thoughts of one character
example: when the talkers use names
15. Third Person Omniscient Point of View
the vantage point from which a story is told by an all-knowing narrator
example: when the teacher is talking to all the students
16. Situational Irony
when you expect one thing to happen and the opposite happens
example: if a fire station burned down
17. Verbal Irony
example: in Shrek when donkey thinks he's intelligent but he's really foolish
18. Dramatic Irony
when the reader or audience knows something a character doesn’t know
example: like in a scary movie when we know the person is going to die but the person doesn't know yet
19. Symbol
example: when something has a different meaning