PPT-Short Story Notes

Plot Setting Conflict Plot f alling action introduction r ising action conclusion climax Introduction Who are the characters What is the problem of the story Tells what has happened in the past. “A story is only as strong as the voices telling it… The only voice a story never needs is the author’s . Characters need to speak for themselves in their own distinct voices… Particularly in a short story, every word they speak needs to sounds like the speaker and move the story along.”. http://inktank.fi/10-greatest-short-story-writers-21st-century/. Elements of a Short Story. Character. Setting. Plot. Conflict. Theme. Narrative Point of View (Perspective). CHARACTER. Characters are the people, animals or imaginary creatures that are presented in a story. Day Monday Notes: Tuesday Notes: Wednesday Notes: Thursday Notes: Friday Notes: Saturday Notes: Sunday Notes: Workout Intervals Steady row Repeat four times for one set then take a break of 3 minu 9. Ms. McDowell. Short Story:. A fictional tale of a length that is too short to publish in a single volume like a . novel. . Usually, short stories concentrate on a single event with only one or two . Edgar Allen Poe (1809-1849). American writer during the time of Romanticism. Writer of American Gothic literature. Creator of the short story as a genre. Author of short stories, poems, and novels . The short story is short because of the following things:. …written and in the form of video.. Short, Short, Fiction. There is a genre of short story called “Flash Fiction”, or “micro-Fiction”. In the far east they are referred to as “Smoke Log Stories”. You may have heard these stories being called “Post Card Stories”.. Outline. The classic short story. Modernist approaches to short fiction. The context for short fiction in modernism. Katherine Mansfield. D. efinitions. E.M. Forster, . Aspects of the Novel. :. [Story] is immensely old – it goes back to Neolithic times, perhaps to Palaeolithic... The primitive audience was an audience of shock-heads, gaping round the campfire, fatigued with contending against the mammoth or woolly rhinoceros, and only kept awake by suspense. The [storyteller] droned on, and as soon as the audience guessed what happened next they either fell asleep or killed him.” . by: Altay, Shawn, Peter, and Justin. Pg. 211 “We had passed through walls of piled bones, with casks and puncheons intermingling, into the inmost recesses of the catacombs”. Pg. 212 “We passed through a range of low arches, descended, passed on, and descending again, arrived at a deep crypt, in which the foulness of the air caused our flambeaux rather to glow than flame.”. PROOF ONE:. One of the main characters are named . Fortunado. . In the end, this character dies.. PROOF TWO:. Montressor. jokes that he is a mason when . Fortunado. asks for a sign, and . Monstressor. A . short story. is a name given to a fictional prose selection, which is short (. it can be read in one sitting. ) and is a story (. it narrates an event or incident. ). .. A number of other general characteristics, however, can be given as a means of further defining the short story:. Bell Work 4/1/19 What makes a good short story? What elements does a well written short story include? Write 5-6 sentences about your spring break! Announcements Book Response Poetry Quiz AZ Merit RPS update 1553303 English Prose. Aj Nareema Sangwiman, Ph.D. Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. Nakhon Pathom Rajabhat University. Scope of unit. Literary terms and useful vocabulary. Definitions . and history of English and American . Setting. Plot. Conflict. Character . Point of View. Theme. E. lements . of a short story. Setting: . The . time and location in which a story takes place. is called the Setting. For some stories the setting is very important, while for others it is not. There are several aspects of a story. English. What you need. A pen, paper, book or a device.. Learning intention. T. o understand the structures and features that define a short story..  . What you need to do. Continue to record ‘new vocabulary’ as you progress through the lessons..