PPT-Short Story Terms

Grade 8 Language Arts What you will need to know Introduction Rising Action Climax Falling Action Conclusion Setting Characters  Point of View POV  Theme Irony ForeshadowingFlashback. “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.”. Presenter. John Hope. Multiple Short Story Winner…. Royal Palm Literary Awards. CrossTIME. Science Fiction/Fantasy Awards. Ron L Hubbard Writers of the Future Award. Short Story Writing. Short Story Overview. Ms. McDowell. Short Story:. A fictional tale of a length that is too short to publish in a single volume like a novel. Short stories are usually between five and sixty pages; as a result, they can be read in a single sitting. Usually, short stories concentrate on a single event with only one or two characters. . 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:. Character. Setting. Plot. Conflict. Theme. Narrative Point of View (Perspective). What are the 5 Elements of a Short Story?. Characters are the people, animals or imaginary creatures that are presented in a story. Ms. . Cross. You will be quizzed on these terms at the end of the . unit . and must be able to define them during activities throughout the unit. . Short Story:. A fictional tale of a length that is too short to publish in a single volume like a novel. Short stories are usually between five and sixty pages; as a result, they can be read in a single sitting. Usually, short stories concentrate on a single event with only one or two characters. . 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:. “Battle Royale”. Choose Your Own. Concepts to be Learned: . Main focus-- 1. . . Genre and Text Structure- . What elements make up an effective short story? What is the structure used within the short story? How does diction and syntax play an integral part in creating atmosphere, mood, and/or tone. 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.”. 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 . 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. DEFINITION. Short, brief. Fictional. Prose. Narrative, story. CHARACTERISTICS. Few. characters. Single. effect. often moral. theme. didactic. instructive. CHARACTERISTICS. Dictates of the . FORM:. Setting. 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..