Short Story Definitions
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- Theme
- Idea, subject, topic of the literature.
- Suspense
- mood, details, dialogue or other techniques are used to make the reader want to keep reading
- Point of view
- The view of the story from the the way the author sees it. (author's perspective)
- Allegory
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a story that has more than one meaning
literal or symbolic - Plot
- The sequence of related events that make up a story or drama.
- Foreshadowing
- writer gives clues or hints of events to follow in the plot
- Characters
- Individuals in a story, poem or play. (always has human traits even if it is an animal)
- Symbolism
- object or anything that represents something else
- Setting
- Time and place in which events of literary work take place.
- Irony
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In the story, events occur in unexpected ways
verbally or inferred - Dialogue
- Conversation between characters
- Protagonist
- Character that the story is about. The reader usually roots for them.
- Satire
- A literary technique in which writers make fun of something to show it's worst features.
- Conflict
- A struggle between two opposing forces in a piece of literature. (Character and their mind,character another character or nature)