This document defines and explains the key elements of a short story: plot, theme, setting, character, and conflict. It breaks down plot into the major parts: exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution. It also defines and provides examples of other important literary elements like protagonist, antagonist, tone, mood, dynamic and static characters. The document aims to teach the basic building blocks for understanding and analyzing short stories.
18. Character
• Opposes
What is an protagonist
antagonist? • Bad guy
19. Dynamic vs. Static
DYNAMIC STATIC
• Character • Character stays
changes the same through
throughout a the whole story.
story. They either This person does
do something not change. They
differently or are actually very
make a choice predictable
they would not through the whole
have normally story.
made.
20. Who is the hero or central
character of a story?
A. Protagonist
B. Climax
C. Exposition
D. Antagonist