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    This document provides a review of key literary elements for a short story unit, including definitions and examples for: - Plot elements like exposition, inciting moment, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution - Characterization techniques like direct and indirect characterization - Types of characters such as protagonists, antagonists, flat and round characters, and stock characters - Conflict types like external and internal conflicts - Theme identification and common themes - Differences between theme and subject Students are asked to fill in definitions and examples for each term from stories they have read.

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    This document provides a review of key literary elements for a short story unit, including definitions and examples for: - Plot elements like exposition, inciting moment, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution - Characterization techniques like direct and indirect characterization - Types of characters such as protagonists, antagonists, flat and round characters, and stock characters - Conflict types like external and internal conflicts - Theme identification and common themes - Differences between theme and subject Students are asked to fill in definitions and examples for each term from stories they have read.

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    Elements of Literature: Short Stories Unit Review

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    This document provides a review of key literary elements for a short story unit, including definitions and examples for: - Plot elements like exposition, inciting moment, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution - Characterization techniques like direct and indirect characterization - Types of characters such as protagonists, antagonists, flat and round characters, and stock characters - Conflict types like external and internal conflicts - Theme identification and common themes - Differences between theme and subject Students are asked to fill in definitions and examples for each term from stories they have read.

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    Name: _____________________________________________________________ Date: __________ Block: ________

    Elements of Literature: Short Stories Unit Review


    Directions: For each of the following lit terms, write a definition and provide an example from a book, movie, or
    television show.

    Plot
    Term
    Exposition

    Definition

    Example

    Inciting Moment

    Rising Action

    Climax

    Falling Action

    Resolution/ Denouement

    Characterization
    Term
    Direct Characterization

    Indirect Characterization

    Definition

    What are the five things a writer describes


    when using indirect characterization?
    1.
    2.
    3.
    4.

    Example

    5. Others Responses
    Motivation

    Protagonist

    Antagonist

    Flat Characters
    (sometimes called static
    characters)

    Round Characters
    (sometimes called
    dynamic characters)

    Stock Characters

    Conflict
    Term

    Definition

    Conflict

    External Conflict
    The character vs.
    1.
    2.
    3. A force or aspect of nature
    Internal conflict

    Example

    Theme
    Term
    Theme

    Universal Themes

    Definition

    Example

    1. Come up again and again in literature.


    2.
    3.
    4.

    Theme vs. Subject

    What are some


    ways to find
    theme?

    What is the difference between theme and subject?

    1. Look at the title.


    2. Look at

    3. Look at

    What is one theme from The Necklace?


    __________________________________________________________________________________________________
    What is one theme from The Most Dangerous Game?
    __________________________________________________________________________________________________
    What is one theme from Raymonds Run
    __________________________________________________________________________________________________
    Who was the protagonist in The Most Dangerous Game? Who was the antagonist?
    __________________________________________________________________________________________________
    Have we come across any stock characters in the three short stories weve read? Who are they and what stereotype do
    they represent?
    __________________________________________________________________________________________________
    *Extra Credit: On the back of this paper, tell me which story we read was your favorite. Why did you like it?

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