Short Story Terms Test

Author or narrator makes direct statements about a character's traits.

• direct characterization

• point of view

• third person limited

• implied theme

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

character's personality is revealed through character's own words, thoughts, and actions / or through words, thoughts, actions of other characters

• direct characterization

• indirect characterization

• exposition

• inciting incident

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.4.4

perspective from which the story is told

• third person limited

• first person

• point of view

• exposition

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.9

narrator is a character in the story; uses "I"

• first person

• third person limited

• third person omniscient

• plot

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.9

narrator reveals thoughts and feelings of only one character

• third person omniscient

• first person

• indirect characterization

• third person limited

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.9

narrator reveals thoughts and feelings of everybody

• third person limited

• third person omniscient

• stated theme

• inciting incident

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.9

must be inferred by considering all the elements of a story and asking what message about life is conveyed

• implied theme

• rising action

• resolution

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.9

CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

main idea directly presented in a story

• plot

• internal conflict

• stated theme

• resolution

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.9

CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

sequence of events in a story

• plot

• inciting incident

• rising action

• climax

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

character struggles against an outside force (character, nature, society, or fate)

• internal conflict

• climax

• external conflict

• resolution

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.8