8 Short Story Elements
Across
- 1. scene from the past that interrupts events
- 2. conflict with an outside force
- 6. time and place
- 8. theme expressed directly by the author
- 9. perspective from which the story is told
- 11. the message about life
- 12. tools writers use to enhance their writing
- 16. the turning point
- 18. emotional atmosphere
- 19. sequence of events
- 20. the action when the conflict lessons
- 23. all knowing narrator
- 25. theme expressed by mainly cultures
Down
- 1. use of clues to hint at events to come
- 3. the character's qualities
- 4. a story's conclusion
- 5. narrator reveals thoughts and feelings of a single character
- 7. perspective from a narrator outside the story
- 10. perspective of a character in the story
- 13. introduces the conflict
- 14. introduces setting, characters and situation
- 15. people or animals in the story
- 16. struggle between opposing forces
- 17. a sudden discovery
- 21. theme suggested through what happens
- 22. conflict in a character's mind
- 24. secondary story line
- 26. contrast between outcome and what the reader expects