Short Stories

1. The main character of the story.
6. The person who opposes the protagonist.
9. The struggle of two forces within a story.
10. A figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance, as in “A mighty fortress is our God.”
11. These characters do not change within the story. They remain the same.
13. These characters are stereotyped and shallow. They only have a few traits.
14. The place where the story takes place.

2. These types of characters are convincing true to life, have differences and contradictory personality traits.
3. The central idea or message of the story.
4. These types of characters undergo development in a story.
5. The high point of the story.
7. The beginning of the story.
8. The literary element that describes the structure of a story. It shows arrangement of events and actions within a story.
11. A figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compared, as in “she is like a rose.”
12. The people (or animals, things etc. presented as people) appearing in a literary work.
13. The type of narration that gives a personal perspective. It usually uses "I".
15. This type of narration is told from an outside perspective. It is as if the narrator is watching the events unfold, but is separate from them.