PPT-Unit 1: Short Story Unit

Introduction a nd Literary Terms Short Story Literary Terms short story plot conflict characters setting characterization antagonist protagonist s ymbol theme . T.A.G. and Parenthetical Citations. Unit I Remediation: Using the T.A.G.. Whenever you write about a piece of literature, you must include the . title, author, and genre. .. Titles of poems, songs, and short stories use “quotation marks;” titles of longer works, such as books and plays, should be . 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). 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. . …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”.. 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:. Practice for Novel Book Clubs conducted by you!. How this will work.. As a class we will read three short stories.. With the first, “The Story of an Hour. ”. by Kate Chopin, I will model how we can create discussion.. 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.” . “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. “The Interlopers”. . Read the poem ‘A Poison Tree” by William Blake.. *. After you have read the poem. . underline. all the words you don’t understand, and look them up in a dictionary.. 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:. 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. Assist.Prof. . . Asmaa.Mukaram. . Saeed . Ernest Hemingway – ‘Cat in the Rain. . Cat in the Rain" is a short story by American author Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), first published by Richard Hadley of . 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..