english 12 short story terms

Theme

Central topic subject or concept author is trying to point out. Possible to be more than one in a singe work.

Symbol

Object that represents an idea, process, or physical entity. Used to communicate meaning.

Suprise Ending

Plot twist that occurs at or near end of a story.

style

Way in which author tells a story including dictation choice, sentence types and literary devices and techniques.

Stock

Fictional character based of common literary of social stereotype.

Stereotype

Belief adopted about specific types of individuals or certain ways of doing things.

Static Character

Character who does not undergo any significant change in nature, values, or emotions, in contrast to a dynamic character.

Slang

Use of informal words and expressions not considered standard in speakers’ language or dialect.

Round Character

Character with complex and fully developed personality

Rising Action

Stories basic conflict complicated by secondary conflicts that frustrates protagonists attempt to reach his goal.

Resolution

In poetry the solution to the problem presented in the first part of the sonnet, in fiction see denouement.

plot

Sequence of events that make up a story.

Objective point of view

Unbiased POV without describes character’s thoughts opinions or feelings.

Modernism

Various movements in art, architecture, literature… characterized by deliberate break with classical and traditional forms of methods of expression.

Marxism

the ideas, theories and methods of Karl Marx, the political and economic theories propounded bu Mark together with friedrich Engels, later developed by their followers to form the bais.

Indeterminate ending

Ending that is neither happy or unhappy.

Idiom

An expression or phrase that makes figurative but not literal sense.

Hero

The protagonist, the term often implies nobility of character or great purpose.

Foil

A character who’s contrasts with another character (usually the protagonist) in order to highlight particular qualities of the order of the other character.

Flat Character

A relatively uncomplicated character who does not change throughout the course of a work; contrasts around with round character.

Feminism

Advocacy of equality of the sexes and the establishment of the political, social, and economic rights of the female sex; the movement associated with this.

Falling Action

The point in the narrative after the climax where the conflict is resolved.

Dynamic Character

A character who undergoes a significant change in their nature, values or emotions; contrasting to a static character.

Denouement

The part of the story

Aestetieism

The quality of being aesthetic; the pursuit of or devotion to what is beautiful

Character

The representation of a person in a narrative work of art.

climax

The point of highest tension or

conflict

The central tension between the protagonist and antagonist