6 21st Century

Character

A character in a short story is a person, in some stories an animal, who takes part in the action of the story or other literary work

The protagonist

is considered as the main character or most important of all the characters

The antagonist

is the character that challenges the main character

Setting

The place (locale) and time (period) when the story happens is called the setting

Plot

A plot is the actual story

a. Exposition

This is the beginning of the story

Rising Action

This event occurs as you begin to move throughout the story

c. Climax

It is the most exciting part of a short story

d. Falling Action

This point occurs after the climax as the problems in the story start to work themselves out

e. Resolution

This is the solution to the problem in a story

Conflict

Every story needs to have a problem and this problem is called conflict

Theme

This is the central idea in a short story and a general truth

Point of View

This is the way the story is told or narrated

The following are the types of point of view in a short story

a

First Person

the narrator participates in and tells the story using the pronoun ‘I

Limited Third Person

the narrator is not in the story and narrates using the pronouns ‘she or ‘he

c. Omniscient Third Person

the narrator is not in the story and tells the story using the pronouns ‘she or ‘he