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What is a ?ShortStory
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AShortStory
Is short enough to be read in a single sitting (half hour or two hours)
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AShortStory
Is usually less than 5000 words.
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AShortStory
Is shorter than a novel and has one plot or major event.
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Elementsof a
ShortStory
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1. Setting 2. Characters3. Point of
View4. Plot5. Theme
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Setting
It is the physical and social context in which the action of the story
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Setting
You must consider:• Time• Place• The social
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Characters
The people or the animals that take part in
the story.
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CLASSIFICATIONS:
Protagonist
Center of the story’s action
or theme.
Antagonist
The one in conflict with
the antagonist
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Characterization
Static
Remains the same from
beginning to end
Dynamic
Exhibit change as the story progresses
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Point of View
Refers to who is the one telling the story and how
it is told
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Categories:
a. First person Uses the pronoun “I”
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Categories:
a. First person
Uses the pronouns “he”, “she”, or “they”
b. Third person
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Categories:
a. First person b. Third person
OmniscientAll knowing and
knows everything about the characters
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Categories:
a. First person b. Third person
Limited OmniscientTakes the readers into
the lives of some characters, but not the
other characters
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Categories:
a. First person b. Third person
ObjectiveOnly reports the action
or the dialogue
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Plot
The arrangement of events that make up the
story
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What makes up a PLOT?
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Exposition
Introduces the main characters and describes
the setting
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Rising Action
Conflict that leads to a crisis or a moment of
great tension
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Climax
Moment of greatest tension
in the story
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Falling Action
Plot complications are sorted out and
resolved
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Denouement
Simply the end of the story and not all stories have one
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A Plot Diagram
Exposition
RisingAction
Climax
FallingAction
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Theme
The central idea of the story.
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Theme
Can sum up the entire story into a word or two.
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VS
Theme:Love and revenge
Moral:Revenge will lead you to downfall.
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