Literary Terms:



Mrs. D’Antonio English 9

SHORT STORY REVIEW SHEET

Part I: Literary Terms

Be able to define and recognize examples for each of the following terms.

antagonist

climax

coming of age

conclusion (resolution, denouement)

conflict (5 types)

diction

dynamic character

exposition

epiphany

flashback

flat character

foreshadowing

genre

in medias res

limited omniscience (also known as selective or partial omniscience)

metaphor

objective point of view

participant narrator

personification

plot

protagonist

round character

setting

simile

static character

stock character

stream of consciousness

style

suspense

symbol

theme

tone

omniscient narrator

unreliable narrator

Part II: Fill in the blank

Be able to identify examples of figurative language.

Part III: Symbols

Be able to identify important images from the stories that we have read.

Part IV: Paragraphs

In the paragraph section, you will be asked to bring the literary terminology into relationship with the stories that we read. You will be asked to choose two of five topics and to write a complete paragraph (with a topic sentence, supporting examples, and a concluding sentence). Be sure to define the terms, give specific examples, and answer the questions thoroughly.

Part V: Quotations

There will be seven quotations on the test; you will be asked to choose three of them to interact with. You will be asked to identify the story, the context, and to provide an analysis of each quote in which you discuss how the quote connects with the themes of the story and why the quotation is significant. Remember our class discussions! (See back for quotations.)

“…my stomach kind of fell as I felt how hard the world was going to be to me hereafter.” – “A&P”

. “on Sundays try to walk like a lady and not like the slut you are so bent on becoming; don’t sing benna in Sunday school; you mustn’t speak to wharf-rat boys, not even to give directions”

“I’m always learning something. Learning never ends. It won’t hurt me to learn something tonight. I got ears.” – “Cathedral”

“My eyes were still closed. I was in my house. I knew that. But I didn’t feel like I was inside anything.” - “Cathedral”

“We were all dangerous characters then. We wore torn-up leather jackets, slouched around with toothpicks in our mouths, sniffed glue and ether and what somebody claimed was cocaine. When we wheeled our parents’ whining station wagons out onto the street we left a patch of rubber half a block long.” – “Greasy Lake”

“By now the birds had begun to take over for the crickets, and the dew lay slick on the leaves. There was a smell in the air, raw and sweet at the same time, the smell of the sun firing buds and opening blossoms. I contemplated the car. It lay there like a wreck along the highway, like a steel sculpture left over from a vanished civilization. Everything was still. This was nature.” – “Greasy Lake”

“He tried to think a little about the ballerinas. They weren’t really very good—no better than anybody else would have been, anyway. They were burdened with sashweights and bags of birdshot, and their faces were masked, so that no one, seeing a free and graceful gesture or a pretty face, would feel like something the cat drug in. George was toying with the vague notion that maybe dancers shouldn’t be handicapped. But he didn’t get very far with it before another noise in his ear radio scattered his thoughts.” – “Harrison Bergeron”

“…the terrible handicap of being young, the light weight of his few years, just heavy enough to prevent his soaring free of the world as it seemed to be ordered but not heavy enough to keep him footed solid in it, to resist it and try to change the course of its events.” – “Barn Burning”

“They are safe from him. People whose lives are a part of this peace and dignity are beyond his touch, he no more to them than a buzzing wasp: capable of stinging for a little moment but that’s all; the spell of this peace and dignity rendering even the barns and stable and cribs which belong to it impervious to the puny flames he might contrive…” – “Barn Burning”

“The syllables of the word Araby were called to me through the silence in which my soul luxuriated and cast an Eastern enchantment over me.” – “Araby”

“Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and anger.” – “Araby”

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