PPT-Short Story Terms

What is a Short Story A short story is a brief work of fiction where usually the main character faces a conflict that is worked out in the plot of the story Character Character a person in a story poem or play. 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?. Character. Setting. Plot. Conflict. Theme. Narrative Point of View. What are the 6 Elements of a Short Story?. S. etting is the “when” and “where” that a story takes place.. Setting. Definition. 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. . Ms. Eckert . Genre . A . genre. is a literary style or category.. Ex.- mystery, horror, romance, historical fiction, fantasy, novel, short story . A . short story. is a work of fiction that is shorter than a novel; typically can be read in one sitting (30 minutes to 2 hours). 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:. . Pages 1-276 in text. . . . Parallel Reading: . Short Stories by . Tolstoy. . ENG II – World Literature. Weeks 1-6. S. trategize. O. rganize. 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:. 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 . 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. 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 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.