Short Story Terms

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Across
  1. 3. The results of the climax
  2. 4. A short narrative with a moral lesson
  3. 5. Story; events; a literary work relating to series of actions
  4. 6. The event that initiates the conflict
  5. 8. The central idea of the story, an observation about life or human nature
  6. 9. The high point of the story, the result of the crisis the author has created
  7. 10. The framework of the story, or the purposeful arrangement of its events
  8. 12. The incidents in a plot that follow the initial incident and precede the climax
  9. 13. the character that opposes the protagonist in any story
  10. 14. Can be man vs. self, man vs. man, man vs. nature, man vs. society
  11. 15. The time, place and mood of a narrative
Down
  1. 1. The atmosphere that pervades a literary work (the speaker's attitude)
  2. 2. The leading or central character in the story
  3. 4. The action immediately following the climax and lasting until the resolution
  4. 7. The process through which the author reveals to the reader the qualities of a character
  5. 11. A story, handed down through generations