Short Story Terminology

leads readers from a first story into another, smaller one (or several ones within it)

• frame story

• poem

• explanatory

• argumentative

time and place in which a story occurs

how we as readers are made to feel or the emotion evoked by the author

a RECURRING symbol that has significance within a story

when a work presents material that occurred prior to the opening scene

author's attitude towards a subject

this literary device prepares a reader for action to come

central or universal idea of a piece of fiction

Reference to another work of literature, art, or real event in a literary work

Characters, settings, images, etc. that represent bigger ideas