PPT-Elements of a Short Story

SETTING Where and when the story takes place Does it occur in the past present future What specific place are the events happening in CHARACTERS Simplistically put there is often a hero who you hope will succeed and a villain that stands in their way. Genre Intro. What do we already know about short stories?. What short stories have we read?. Which authors or short stories do we know?. Why do writers write short stories?. What is the purpose of a short story?. “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. 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:. Write . a description of what you remember about . kindergarten.. Find the short story,. “Charles” . by Shirley . Jackson. . Use the Table of Contents; . hint - Unit 1. INFERENCE. What clues were in our mind to make us ready to make the inference? . Story Elements . Review. Protagonist. : The story revolves around this character, and he or she is facing a conflict.. Antagonist. : The person or thing getting in the protagonist’s way of “winning” the conflict.. OBJECTIVES. Identify elements of a short story. Define elements of a short story. Demonstrate mastery of short story elements. . OVERVIEW. Short stories often contain structural and character elements that should be familiar to you. . 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 Short Stories. A short story is a brief form of prose fiction with characters, a setting, and a plot. . It resembles longer forms of fiction in exploring an insight into life. . Literary Elements. Plot. IDefine Unfamiliar WordsElicit Literal and Inferential InformationAnalyze IllustrationsDiscuss illustrations to reinforce new word learning and narrative elements eg characters settingwwwiowareadingre 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.