Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
P E R L
E O T E
OBJECTIVES
• Recognizing elements of a short
story
• Sequencing of events
• Recalling figures of speech
• Identifying the figures of speech
used in the short story
Elements of a Short
Story
What you need to know!
WHAT IS A
SHORT
STORY?
Story Elements
Setting
Characters
Plot
Point of View
Theme
Setting
Introduction
/ Exposition Resolution
Setting, characters,
and conflict are
introduced
Putting It All Together
1. Exposition Beginning of
Story
2. Rising Action
Middle of Story
3. Climax
4. Falling Action
End of Story
5. Resolution
Conflict
Conflict is the dramatic struggle
between two forces in a story. Without
conflict, there is no plot.
Conflict
Conflict is a problem that
must be solved; an issue
between the protagonist
and antagonist forces. It
forms the basis of the plot.
Types of Conflict
Character vs Character
Character vs Nature
Character vs Society
Character vs Self
Point of View
• First Person Point of View- a
character from the story is telling the
story; uses the pronouns “I” and “me”
• Third Person Point of View- an
outside narrator is telling the story;
uses the pronouns “he”, “she”, “they”
Types of Third-Person
Point of View
• Third-Person • Third-Person
Limited Omniscient
• The narrator • The narrator
knows the knows the
thoughts and thoughts and
feelings on only feeling of ALL
ONE character in the characters in a
a story. story.
Theme
The theme is the central,
general message, the main
idea, the controlling topic
about life or people the
author wants to get across
through a literary work.
Number Heads Together
Figures of Textual
Speech Evidence
Imagery
Symbolism
Irony
Any questions?
Reflective Thinking
Figurative Language
“Figuring it Out”
Figurative and Literal Language
Literally: words function exactly as defined
The car is blue.
He caught the football.
Figuratively: figure out what it means
I’ve got your back.
You’re a doll.
^Figures of Speech
Simile
Comparison of two things using “like” or “as.”
Examples
The metal twisted like a ribbon.
She is as sweet as candy.
Important!
Using “like” or “as” doesn’t make a simile.
Examples
Examples
Examples
I will love you forever.
My house is a million miles away.
She’d kill me.
Understatement
Expression with less strength than expected.
The opposite of hyperbole.
is searching
for food—
8
Dinner is on the house.
9
Example
But believe me, son.
I want to be what I used to be
when I was like you.
from “Once Upon a Time” by Gabriel Okara
Distinguishing Characteristics of Poetry
• Poetry is also formatted differently from
prose.
– A line is a word or row of words that may or
may not form a complete sentence.
– A stanza is a group of lines forming a unit. The
stanzas in a poem are separated by a space.
Example
Open it.
Example #2
When you are old and grey and full of sleep
W.B. Yeats
Connotation and Denotation
Connotation - the emotional and imaginative
association surrounding a word.
pushy aggressive
politician statesman
chef cook
slender skinny
Elements of Poetry
When we explore the connotation and
denotation of a poem, we are looking at the
poet’s diction.