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Objectives
Elements of a Short Story
• Identify and define elements of a short story
• Demonstrate mastery of short story elements by creating story grammar
OverviewA Short Story is similar to your dish. It needs
the best ingredients for you to enjoy its delectable taste.
Elements of a Short Story
Stories are made up of four important elements:
Setting Characters, Plot, and Theme
Characters and Characterization
The people, and in some stories, the animals that take part in the story.
The description of the personalities of the characters in the story and the way in which an author reveals their personalities.
Two Identifications of Characters
1. Protagonist – the hero of the story
2. Antagonist – the villain in the story who is always opposing the protagonist
Methods of CharacterizationCreating Believable Characters
• Indirect– physical appearance
– speech, thoughts, feelings, or actions of the character
– speech, thoughts, feelings, or actions of other characters
• Direct
– the narrator’s direct comments about a character
Plot• The chain of related
events that take place in a story.
• Built around conflict, which is a struggle between opposing forces.
PLOT DIAGRAM
Risi
ng
Actio
n
Falling Action
Resolution
Climax
Exposition
Conflict
• The plot is the sequence or order of events in a story.
• The plot includes:Exposition Statement
The part of the plot that tells how the story begins.
Rising Action The action in the story
leading up to the climax.Conflict
The struggles or problems between opposing forces.
ClimaxThe point of crisis in the
plot. It may be the reader’s point of highest interest.
Falling action The action in the story
after the climax is revealed.
Resolution The part of the plot that
reveals the final outcome.
-Man vs. Man-Man vs. Man
-Man vs. Nature-Man vs. Nature
-Man vs. Obstacle or Society-Man vs. Obstacle or Society
- Man vs. Supernatural Being- Man vs. Supernatural Being
-Man vs. Himself-Man vs. Himself
Types of ConflictTypes of Conflict
Theme
Ex. Ex.
LoveLoveFamily FeudFamily Feud
Themes Themes from ‘The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet’from ‘The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet’
• The main idea of a story. The main idea of a story. • It is not a moral, lesson, or a It is not a moral, lesson, or a
rule for living.rule for living.
CONCLUSION
Now that we have Now that we have
identified and defined the identified and defined the
elements of a short story, let us elements of a short story, let us
use the elements to analyze a use the elements to analyze a
Short Story. Short Story.
You may use your notes You may use your notes
from the PowerPoint from the PowerPoint
presentation.presentation.
BibliographyDinneen, K. Elements of the Short Story.
Retrieved Jun. 19, 2003, from Yale-New Haven Teachers
Institute:
http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1983/3/83.03.09.x.html Five Elements of a Story. Retrieved Jun. 19, 2003, http://www.teachervision.com/lesson-plans/lesson-2277.html
Guevin, D. Short Story Elements. Retrieved Jun. 19, 2003, http://www.uvm.edu/~dguevin/Elements.html
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