The Necklace by Guy De Maupassant
http://quizlet.com/17504702/the-necklace-by-guy-de-maupassant-story-element-questions-flash-cards/
The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell
http://moronepedia.wikispaces.com/Most+Dangerous+Game+Questions+and+Answers!
Marigolds by Eugenia Collier
http://english54321.tripod.com/id5.html
The Scarlet Ibis by James Hurst
http://www.enotes.com/topics/scarlet-ibis/quiz
The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe
http://www.goodreads.com/quizzes/9555-the-cask-of-amontillado
It is important to know the following literary elements:
- exposition - background material about the characters, setting, and dramatic situation in which the author introduces the essentials of the story to the reader.
- rising action - the part of the story in which the tension rises. occurs after the exposition and leads to the story's climax.
- climax - the moment when the action comes to its highest point of dramatic conflict or the moment when the main character comes to a realization or learns a lesson.
- falling action - the part of the story following the climax and leading to the resolution in which there is a sharp decline in dramatic tension.
- resolution - the conclusion of the story
- conflict - the central source of tension and drama in the story; the problem the main character is facing. internal conflict - character vs. some feeling or emotion. external conflict - character vs. an outside force (another character, nature, society, etc.)
- irony - a situation that seems odd or out of place. the opposite of what one expects to happen actually happens.
- mood - the over-all feeling of a work created by the author's choice of words
- narrator - the speaker who tells the story. May be a character in the story or may be someone outside the story.
- point of view - the perspective from which a story is told. omniscient - author is involved in the story and presents the thoughts of all the characters involved. limited - story is told from the viewpoint of one character who only sees part of the story.
- protagonist - the central character of the story
- antagonist - the character who works against the protagonist
- suspense - techniques used by the author to keep readers interested in the plot and wondering what will happen next
- symbol - an image, object, character, or action that stands for something else beyond its literal meaning
- theme - a story's main idea; the message that the author intends to communicate
