English 2 Short Stories Study Guide

Tone

The author attitude toward the subject or audience, conveyed through word choice, sentence structure, and other literacy element

Mood

A temporary state of mind or feeling

Inference

A conclusion reached on the basic of evidence and reasoning

Theme

The subject of a talk, a piece of writing, a person’s thoughts, or an exhibition

Setting

The place or type of surrounding where something is postition where on an event

Climax

The most intense dramatic point in a story

Exposition

A comprhensive description and explantion of an idea or theory and the start of the story

Rising Action

The of event a story that build tension and develop the central conflict

Falling Action

The series of event that follow the story’s climax, leading to the resolution

Resolution

The final section of the sotry where the main conflict is resloved, loose end are tied up, and the story concluding

Conflict

A serious disagreement or argument

Protagonist

The main character in a literary work

Anatgonist

A person who activley opposes or hostile to someone or something

Round character

A complex, fully developed fictional character with a range of emotion

Flat character

A one-dimensional charcter with a simple, rpedictable personality that doesn’t change or grow throughout a story

Dynamic character

A fictional character who indergoes significant internal change throughout a story

Static charcter

A literacy or dramatic character who remain largely unchange throughout the story

Point of View

A person’s opinion or perspective or a topic

Foreshadowing

An author that gives him or clues about what will happen in the story

Flashback

A scene in a movie, novel, etc, set in a time earlier than the main story

Personification

The altribution of a person nature of human characterization to something nonhuman

Alliteration

The same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words

Metaphor

A figure of speech in which words or phrases is applied to an object or action

Simile

A figure of speech that directly compares two unlike thing, using the words like or as

The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe

There was a black cat that only had one eye. Poe got mad at the cat. He attempt to kill the cat but he killed his wife instead. He hides the wife in a wall and then the police came and arrest him

The Teel Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe

There was an old man with a vulture-eye. The narrator hated the eye. He ripped that old man eye out and he killed him. The narrotor hides the old man in the floor. The police came and arrested.

The board Window by Ambrose Bierce

Murlock unable to save his wife from s sudden illness, mistackenly prepares her for burial and fall asleep

The Monkey’s Paw by W.W. Jacobs

A family who receive a magic monkey’s paw that can grant three wishes but, each wish came with a disadvantage price. The son dies from one of the wishes. The wife wished to bring their son back to life. There was a knock on the door and father made a new wish, the person at the door left.

The life of Edgar Allan Poe

He writes creepy, dark short stories

He is crazy but he does not think he is crazy

Born on January 17, 1809, at Boston, Massachusetts

Died on October 7, 1849, in Baltmore, Maryland

His famous novel was the Raven

The Legend of Sleepy Hallow by Washington Irving

Ichabod is frightened by tales of a the local ghosts, the Headless Horseman, and during his ride home, he is chased by what he believes is spectral rider. He is never seen again, his hat is found near a smashed pumpkin, and Brom Bones later marries Katrina