PPT-Unit 7 Fiction: Short Story

1553303 English Prose Aj Nareema Sangwiman PhD 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 . Click on speaker to hear sound. Types of Fiction. Myth/Legend is realistic or fantastic, used to explain aspects of existence we don’t understand..  . Types of Fiction (cont…). Folktales: impart a lesson and touch upon psychological truths about human beings.. Week of September 17, 2012. What’s the difference?. Science Fiction. Planets. Alien. Flying, talking animals in space. Light sabers. Space ships coming out of the . TV. robots. Realistic Fiction. Might really happen. The Elements of Fiction. S. etting: the time, place, and general environment in which a piece of fiction occurs.. Characterization: the method an author uses to help the reader understand the characters.. The Elements of Fiction. S. etting: the time, place, and general environment in which a piece of fiction occurs.. Characterization: the method an author uses to help the reader understand the characters.. What is a short story?. Have you ever read a short story?. If so, which one?. What are the parts of a short story?. . Short stories usually lack detail. .. Short stories are brief.. Short stories use P.A.C.T.S . to establish the narrative. . What is it?. video. defintion. fiction based on imagined future scientific or technological advances and major social or environmental changes, frequently portraying space or time travel and life on other planets.. 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.” . Realistic fiction is made up of stories that could really happen. . The stories are set in modern times.. Examples of Realistic Fiction. Because of Winn Dixie. Crash. Owl Moon. Shiloh. Bridge to . Terabithia. Intended solely to entertain. Legal thrillers, romance novels. Escapist. Formulaic. Literary Fiction. Written with serious artistic intentions by someone who hopes to enable readers to broaden understanding of life and to empathize with others. PRETEST. Elements of Fiction. CHOOSE THE CORRECT . LITERARY TERM. FROM THE CHOICES PROVIDED.. 1. Which of the following is an element of . plot. ?. A. Symbolism. B. Setting. C. Conflict. D. Mood. 2. The . and . how is it done?. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and the Classic English Detective Novel Formula. a . "closed setting" . such as an isolated house or a train. a . corpse. a . small circle of people . who are all suspects. Types of Fiction. Myth/Legend is realistic or fantastic, used to explain aspects of existence we don’t understand..  . Types of Fiction (cont…). Folktales: impart a lesson and touch upon psychological truths about human beings.. “. A strong explicit focus on language and literature can improve historical understanding…text is such a good tool to think with [because of] its effect upon the imagination…fiction takes some beating as a tool for historical thinking.. DEFINITION. Short, brief. Fictional. Prose. Narrative, story. CHARACTERISTICS. Few. characters. Single. effect. often moral. theme. didactic. instructive. CHARACTERISTICS. Dictates of the . FORM:. Setting.