Short Stories Vocabulary Crossword
                                                 
                                                 
                                                 
                                                 
                                                 
                                                 
                                                 
                                                 
                                                 
                                                 
                                                 
                                                 
                                                 
                                                 
                                                 
                                                 
                                                 
                                                 
                                                 
                                                 
                                                 
                                                 
                                                 
                                                 
                                                 
                                                 
                                                 
                                                 
 
 
Down: 1) struggle between opposing characters, forces, or emotions2) when story's main action is interrupted in order to tell of events that took place in the past3) narrator is not a story character and almost never refers to himself directly4) revealing a character's personality5) an event turns out to be completely unexpected; the opposite of what you thought would happen7) atmosphere effecting the way we feel as we read8) plainly tells us about people who inhabit their fictional words10) characters, setting, and action that stand for something beyond themselves11) when a person or outside force prevents the main character from achieving his goal12) part of story where situation is outlined and characters and main conflict are introduced13) use of clues to hint whats going to happen in the story16) when a main character undergoes an emotional struggle17) events following the climax in which any issues are resolved18) people you meet in a story, poem, or play21) attitude a speaker or writer takes toward a subject, character, or audience23) chain of events that takes place as the main character struggles to achieve his goal24) has only one or two traits26) main character33) point of highest emotional intensity Across: 5) time period and place in which the action of the story takes place6) conflicts with the protagonist trying to prevent them from achieving their goals9) grows and changes during the story14) an object, event, person, or animal that stand for both itself and also for something else15) observing the characters through action19) feeling of uncertainty or anxiety about whats going to happen next20) has many different traits, some admirable and others not so admirable22) you know what is going to happen to a character, but he or she doesn't know25) the storyteller27) series of events28) reason a character behaves a certain way29) plays no part in the story, just tells it using she and he30) chain of events that takes place after the climax has been reached or the conflict resolved31) character who talks to us, using first-person, (pronoun:I)32) doesn't change over the course of the story34) occurs when someone says one thing but actually means the opposite35) hard to sort out; not certain what has happened and what will happen next36) his or her unique use of language and style37) describes the difference between what we expect or find suitable and what actually happens38) Third person narrator only knows the thoughts of a single character; outside characters are only presented externally
 

 

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