Lesson 7 Short Story

Narrates an imaginary or invented story, shorter than a novel, but longer than a fable, it can be read in one sitting.

Short Story

The author reveals the main character's thoughts, feelings, and ideas through this type of character.

Confidante

may not necessarily be a person, it could be an object or an animal.

Confidante

is a supporting character whose traits are opposite the main character.

Foil Character

This is a technique done by the writer to highlight the characteristics of the main character.

Foil Character

These characters are types and not individuals.

Stock Characters

_____________ are based on clichés and social prejudices.

Stock Characters

This type of character is well-developed in the story.

Round Character

It surprises the readers with their realistic decisions.

Round Character

Authors use this type of character to amuse the readers with the way they grow, develop, and change in the story.

Round Character

This type of character is used to create compelling stories through conflict and challenge traditional notions of morality.

Villain Character

is a literary term for adjectives and descriptions that writers to add personality and depth to the character.

Character Traits

may be external or internal.

Character Traits

are the characters physical characteristics, behavior and movements.

External Traits

are the characters' thoughts, emotions, and actions.

Internal Traits

is a literary device that authors use to make the characters in their literary pieces real, living, and breathing people. With this style, authors can keep their readers engaged in the text.

Characterization

through ___________ the qualities and traits of the characters are revealed through the narrator.

Dirrect Characterization

tells exactly how the characters lock like and how they view the world.

The narrator

the qualities and traits of the characters are revealed through narrator's statement of actions and behaviors of the characters.

Indirect Characterization

The author reveals the characters' qualities and traits of the characters through their body language, gestures, and words.

Dialogue

The writer reveals the characters through the actions that they are doing.

Character’s Action

Aside from providing the time and place where the story takes place, the _________ helps establish the mood, tone, and context of the story.

setting

This is the central idea of the story.

Theme

Provides the deeper meaning of the literary work which the reader tries to analyze in the story.

Theme

This refers to the series of events in the story.

Plot

Who made the pyramid

Freytag

The characters and settings are introduced.

Exposition

The problem begins to develop in this part of the story.

Rising Action

This is the turning point in a story.

Climax

The character must decide how to overcome the conflict in a story.

Climax

The conflict is resolved in this part of the story.

Falling Action

It presents the concluding events in the story.

Resolution

This refers to the struggle between opposing forces in a story.

Conflict

What are the types of conflict

character, self, society, nature