short story crossword

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Across
  1. 2. a person, object, action, place, or event that in addition to its literal or denotative meanings suggests a more complex meaning or range of meanings
  2. 5. foil is a character who serves to contrast with another character. A hypocritical character, for example, may help emphasize the hero/heroine's honesty.
  3. 7. the central or dominant idea of a work of fiction
  4. 8. - the scene which presents the story's decisive action;
  5. 9. a fictional representation of a person (or animal). Characters may be described as either flat or round.
  6. 14. first-person narration the narrator uses "I" to tell his or her story. The first-person narrator may be a major character in the story or simply an observer. In third-person narration narrators are not actually characters in the story.
  7. 16. - the explanation of the story's premise and background material necessary for the reader to understand the story;
  8. 17. a story with two parallel and consistent levels of meaning, on literal and one figurative
  9. 18. the historical, physical, geographical, and psychological location where a fictional work takes place
  10. 20. an extended narrative in prose. Typically the novel relates to a series of events or follows the history of a character or group of characters through a period of time.
Down
  1. 1. the angle from which a story is told; i.e., the type of narrator the author chooses to use
  2. 2. the way a writer selects and arranges words to express ideas
  3. 3. characters are usually minor characters who are barely developed or may be stereotypes.
  4. 4. third-person narrators can reveal the thoughts of all their characters; they are "all-knowing."
  5. 6. the attitude of the speaker or author of a work toward the subject matter
  6. 10. limited omniscient narrator only reveals the thoughts and feelings of one (or possibly a limited few) character(s).
  7. 11. - the peak in the story's action--the moment of highest dramatic tension;
  8. 12. characters are usually main characters and are fully developed so that the reader can understand their personality and motivations.
  9. 13. or denouement - the outcome of the story--the information that ties up all (or many) of the story's loose ends.
  10. 15. objective third-person narrator does not reveal anyone's thoughts and provides the sort of external, objective information
  11. 18. Story a fictional narrative generally centering on one climactic event and usually developing only a single character in depth; its scope is narrower than that of a novel.
  12. 19. he way in which the narrative events are arranged. Generally, plots have the same basic elements: