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Short Story Terms (Herald)
Test Description: Vocabulary
Instructions: Answer all questions to get your test result.
1) genre
A
a short tale to teach a moral lesson, often with animals or inanimate objects as characters; apologue:
B
a class or category of artistic endeavor having a particular form, content, technique, or the like
2) fable
A
a short tale to teach a moral lesson, often with animals or inanimate objects as characters; apologue:
B
a short allegorical story designed to illustrate or teach some truth, religious principle, or moral lesson.
3) parable
A
a short allegorical story designed to illustrate or teach some truth, religious principle, or moral lesson.
B
a class or category of artistic endeavor having a particular form, content, technique, or the like
4) tale
A
a piece of prose fiction, usually under 10,000 words.
B
a narrative that relates the details of some real or imaginary event, incident, or case; story:
5) realism
A
interest in or concern for the actual or real, as distinguished from the abstract, speculative, etc.
B
a narrative that relates the details of some real or imaginary event, incident, or case; story:
6) short story
A
a piece of prose fiction, usually under 10,000 words.
B
interest in or concern for the actual or real, as distinguished from the abstract, speculative, etc.
7) theme
A
to come into collision or disagreement; be contradictory, at variance, or in opposition; clash:
B
a subject of discourse, discussion, meditation, or composition; topic:
8) protagonist
A
a person who is opposed to, struggles against, or competes with another; opponent; adversary.
B
the leading character, hero, or heroine of a drama or other literary work.
9) Antagonist
A
a person who is opposed to, struggles against, or competes with another; opponent; adversary.
B
the leading character, hero, or heroine of a drama or other literary work.
10) conflict
A
to come into collision or disagreement; be contradictory, at variance, or in opposition; clash:
B
a subject of discourse, discussion, meditation, or composition; topic:
11) Exposition
A
a subject of discourse, discussion, meditation, or composition; topic:
B
a literary device used to introduce background information about events, settings, characters etc. to the audience or readers
12) Foreshadowing
A
to show or indicate beforehand; prefigure:
B
the highest or most intense point in the development or resolution of something; culmination:
13) climax
A
the highest or most intense point in the development or resolution of something; culmination:
B
to show or indicate beforehand; prefigure:
14) Denouement
A
a literary work or section of a work presenting, usually symbolically, such a moment of revelation and insight.
B
the final resolution of the intricacies of a plot, as of a drama or novel.
15) Epiphany
A
the final resolution of the intricacies of a plot, as of a drama or novel.
B
a literary work or section of a work presenting, usually symbolically, such a moment of revelation and insight.
16) Flat character
A
a literary or dramatic character who undergoes little or no inner change; a character who does not grow or develop.
B
an easily recognized character type in fiction who may not be fully delineated but is useful in carrying out some narrative p
17) Round character
A
a character in fiction whose personality, background, motives, and other features are fully delineated by the author.
B
an easily recognized character type in fiction who may not be fully delineated but is useful in carrying out some narrative p
18) Static character
A
a character in fiction whose personality, background, motives, and other features are fully delineated by the author.
B
a literary or dramatic character who undergoes little or no inner change; a character who does not grow or develop.
19) Dynamic Character
A
a literary or dramatic character who undergoes an important inner change, as a change in personality or attitude:
B
a literary or dramatic character who undergoes little or no inner change; a character who does not grow or develop.
20) Stock character
A
a literary or dramatic character who undergoes an important inner change, as a change in personality or attitude:
B
a character in literature, theater, or film of a type quickly recognized and accepted by the reader or viewer and requiring n
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