8 Short Story Elements

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