English. Short Story Test

Front 1

Climax

Back 1

Turning point

Front 2

Conflict

Back 2

Battle between two opposing forces

Front 3

External

Back 3

The character or main figure struggles against some OUTSIDE force

Front 4

Internal

Back 4

The struggle against some element in a characters personality

Front 5

Protagonist

Back 5

The main character in a literary work

Front 6

Resolution

Back 6

Wrapping up of the story

Front 7

Rising action

Back 7

Combination of all the plot events leading to the climax

Front 8

Round character

Back 8

Fully developed character

Front 9

Setting

Back 9

Time and place a story occurs

Front 10

Short story

Back 10

The short fictional prose that usually makes up between ten and twenty pages

Front 11

Theme

Back 11

The central message, concern, or purpose of a literary work

Front 12

Antagonist

Back 12

A character or force on conflict with the main character or protagonist

Front 13

Dynamic character

Back 13

A dramatic character who undergoes An important inner change, As a change in personality or attitude

Front 14

Exposition

Back 14

A writing or speech that explains a process or presents information

Front 15

Flat character

Back 15

Not fully developed but useful in carrying out some narrative purpose of the author

Front 16

Foreshadowing

Back 16

Authors use of clues to hint at what might happen later in the story

Front 17

Plot

Back 17

Sequence of events and which each event results from a previous one and causes the next

Front 18

Point of view

Back 18

Perspective or vantage point, from which the story is told

Front 19

Situational irony

Back 19

Irony involving a situation in which actions have an effect that is opposite from what was intended, so that out come is contrary to what is expected

Front 20

Static

Back 20

A dramatic character who undergoes little or no inner change

Front 21

Tone

Back 21

Writers attitude toward the readers and toward the subject, conveyed by the language and rhythm of the speaker

Front 22

Verbal irony

Back 22

A person says or writes one thing and means another

Front 23

What was the suspense of tell tale heart?

Back 23

Sound of the heart beating

Front 24

Action verbs come after what??

Back 24

Direct objects

Front 25

What point of view was Charles told from?

Back 25

First person

Front 26

Laurie's mother is worried about the bad influence Charles may have on her son. Why is this humorous, once you know the surprise ending? What type of literary device is this??

Back 26

Situational irony

Front 27

What is the climax of tell tale heart?

Back 27

Mad man kills old man

Front 28

What is the climax of Charles

Back 28

Mom goes to PTA meeting and finds out that her sin is Charles

Front 29

What is the climax of up the slide?

Back 29

Gained the head of the mountain

Front 30

What is the climax of the dinner party?

Back 30

People scream and snake runs out

Front 31

Climax of a retrieved reformation

Back 31

Girl gets out of safe

Front 32

Climax of medicine bag

Back 32

Martin brings his friend to see his grandfather

Front 33

What is the resolution of "the dinner party"?

Back 33

When the lady tells every body that the snake was lying across her foot

Front 34

In "the medicine bag" why did grandpa collapse?

Back 34

Heat exhaustion

Front 35

In the medicine bag what is the main reason that grandpa came to visit

Back 35

He feels this that death is near

Front 36

Simple, complex, or compound??
Joe waited for the train

Back 36

Simple

Front 37

In up the slide what is the conflict?

Back 37

Man v/s nature

Front 38

What contributes to the Conflict in up the side

Back 38

Setting

Front 39

What is the rising action Of up the slide

Back 39

Going Up the slide

Front 40

What is it called when the subject of the sentence does the action

Back 40

Active voice

Front 41

What is it called on the subject of the sentence receives the action

Back 41

Passive voice

Front 42

Simple, complex, or compound??
Joe waited for the train, but the train was late

Back 42

Compound

Front 43

Simple, complex, or compound
While Joe waited at the train station, Joe realize that the train was late

Back 43

Complex

Front 44

Foil

Back 44

Another character in the story Who contrast with the main character, Usually to highlight one of their attributes