ESOL 1 Short Story Elements-Mrs. Zambrano

Short Story Elements

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Fiction writing is 

• Real
• Fake
• Fun to read

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What is setting?

• The time and place in which a story occurs

• A character's personality traits

• The most exciting part of a story

• The ending of a story

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The main character in story who wants to reach a goal.

• protagonist

• antagonist

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The character who prevents the protagonist from reaching his/her goal.

• protagonist

• antagonist

• main character

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What is the theme of a story?

• The series of events in a story.

• The author's point of view.

• The major life lesson or message.

• The character's personality traits.

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Point of View is...

• ...when a narrator tells a reader a story

• ...when you can see a nice view

• ...the author giving you directions

• ...the way an author or narrator sees things

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A 1st Person Narrator....

• ...uses "I"

• ...uses "You"

• ...uses "he/she/they"

• ...uses " yo wassup?"

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A narrator using 3rd Person Point of View is

• a part of the story

• a character in the story

• not a character in the story

• not really fun at a party

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The author's attitude toward the subject matter is called ________.

• mood

• tone

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The feeling created in the reader by the writer is called ________.

• mood

• tone

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What is an object, person, or event that represents something else?

• symbol

• representation

• motif

• mood

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Irony usually involves something that is

• false

• silly

• unexpected

• unimportant

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Define foreshadowing.

• A flashback of what happened previously

• A hint at something that will happen later

• Giving human-like characteristics to non-living things

• Comparing two unlike things using like or as

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What is an inference?

• An inference is something that you think is true based on information that you have.

• An inference is directly written in the text

The PLOT is a series of events in a story.

The main parts of the plot are...

the exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution.

The inciting incident is like the "hook" of the story that sets the plot into motion.

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The PLOT of a story is ____________________.

• the series of events in a story.

• the main message or life lesson of a story.

• the most exciting part of a story; the turning point.

• the time and place that a story takes place.

In the exposition we usually learn who the characters are, their background, and the setting.

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What is the exposition of a story?

• Where the action is winding down after the climax.

• The end of the story where everything is resolved.

• The most exciting part of a story; the turning point.

• The beginning of a story where we learn about setting and some of the characters.

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What is the hook of the story where the conflict is first introduced?

• inciting incident

• resolution

• exposition

• rising action

Conflict is a problem or struggle faced by the main character in a story.

There are INTERNAL and EXTERNAL conflicts. Internals are struggles in the heart and/or mind of the character. External conflicts come from some outside force.

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What is the conflict of a story?

• The time and place

• The main problem the character encounters

• The most exciting part of the story

• The beginning of a story

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What is rising action?

• After the climax, when the action starts to wind down.

• Where the conflict of the story grows and where the events increasingly build up in excitement.

• The most exciting part of a story; the turning point.

• The beginning of the story where we learn about setting and some characters.

THE CLIMAX IS THE MOST EXCITING PART OF THE STORY!!!

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What is climax?

• Where the conflict of the story grows and where the events increasingly build up in excitement.

• The end of a story where everything is resolved.

• The beginning of a story where we learn about setting and some characters.

• The most exciting part of a story; the turning point.

The story is moving towards the conclusion.

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What is falling action?

• The end of a story where everything is resolved.

• Where the conflict of the story grows and where the events increasingly build up in excitement.

• The most exciting part of a story; the turning point.

• The part after the climax where events are winding down.

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Problems that arise as characters struggle to reach their goals (WATCH THE VIDEO FOR EXAMPLES).

• plot

• complications

• setting

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The story’s resolution is (check all that apply)

• the end of the story

• the end of the action

• the conflict is resolved

• the theme

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The SIX elements of the plot structure are in which order?

• setting, conflict, rising action, falling action, climax, resolution

• exposition, inciting incident, conflict, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution

• exposition, setting, point of view, conflict, rising action, falling action