Short+Story+Literary+Terms

**Short Story Literary Terms**

 * ===Conflict: Struggle between opposing forces in a literary work .=== ||
 * ===Types of conflict:===

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 * ===Protagonist: Main Character who is involved with the primary conflict===

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 * ===Antagonist: Force blocking the main character===

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 * ===Flashback: When the story is interrupted to go back to an earlier time.=== ||
 * ===Foreshadowing: Cues or hints as to what is to come in a story.===

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 * ===Irony: Surprising contrast between appearance and reality.===

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 * ===Dramatic irony: Contradiction between what a character thinks and what the reader knows is true.===

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 * ===Situational Irony: Plot Twist; Contradiction in what the reader expects to happen. Surprise ending.===

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Verbal Irony: Contradiction between what the speaker says and what the speaker means.
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 * ===First Person Narrator: A person in the story often the main character is telling the story. (When **__I__** was…)===

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 * ===Second Person Narrator: You are a character in the story. Very rare. (You open a door and ….)===

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 * ===Third Person Limited: Outside voice telling the story through one characters point of view.===

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 * ===Third Person Omniscient: Outside voice is telling the story but knows what all the characters are thinking.=== ||