Learning About Short Stories

This technique uses clues early in the story to hint at future events.

• foreshadowing
• theme
• exposition
• conflict

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CCSS.RL.1.3

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.K.3

This technique involves interrupting the story to reveal past events.

• conflict
• flashback
• foreshadowing
• resolution

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CCSS.RL.1.3

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.K.3

This involves a contradiction between appearance and reality or between meaning & intention.

• irony
• indirect characterization
• exposition
• viewpoint

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CCSS.RL.1.3

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.K.3

The narrator of the story is outside the story telling the events

• 1st person
• 3rd person
• omniscient

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CCSS.RL.1.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

a character in the story is telling the story 

• 1st person
• third person
•  omniscient

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9

a person from outside the story is telling the story, but is able to know the thoughts and feelings of all involved

• 1st person
• 3rd person
• omniscient
• 3rd person limited

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9

the central message that is expressed in a story

• theme
• exposition
• topic
• plot

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CCSS.RL.1.3

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.K.3

when the message of the story is suggested indirectly through what happens to the characters

• implied theme
• directly stated theme

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CCSS.RL.3.9

CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RL.4.9

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.5.9

the way the author reveals a character's mannerisms

• characterization
• foreshadowing
• irony
• exposition

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CCSS.RL.1.3

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.K.3

Seeing that no one was in the room to notice, Rose took the $20 that was in her dad's wallet.

• direct characterization
• indirect characterization

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3