Honors English I - Unit 1 Short Stories and Literary Terms
STUDY GUIDE
Literary Terms
1. Plot
2. Exposition
3. rising action
4. climax
5. falling action
6. resolution
7. denouement
8. ambiguity
9. characterization (4 ways)
10. tone
11. setting
12. symbol
13. theme
14. Point of View
a. 1st person point of view
b. 2nd person point of view
c. 3rd person limited point of view
d. 3rd person omniscient point of view
15. personification
16. simile
17. metaphor
18. foreshadowing
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Honors English I - Unit 1 Short Stories and Literary Terms
STUDY GUIDE
19. hyperbole
20. conflict
a. individual vs. nature
b. individual vs. society
c. individual vs. invidual
d. individual vs. self
21. paradox
22. oxymoron
23. genre
24. protagonist
25. antagonist
26. concrete
27. abstract
Short Stories
For each story, review the characters, conflicts, plot, theme, and point of view of the narrator.
“The Most Dangerous Game”
by Richard Connell
“Cathedral”
by Raymond Carver
“There Will Come Soft Rains”
by Ray Bradbury
“The Hit Man”
by T. Coraghessan Boyle
“Sunday in the Park”
by Bel Kaufman
“Reunion”
by John Cheever
“The Lottery Ticket”
by Anton Chekhov
“The Lottery”
by Shirley Jackson
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