Short Story Elements

What is setting?

• The time and place where a story occurs
• A character's personality traits.
• The most exciting part of a story.
• The ending of a story.

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

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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CCSS.RI. 9-10.9

CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

What is a protagonist?

• The protagonist is the main character.

• The protagonist is always the good guy.

• The protagonist can only be one character.

• The protagonist is always the bad guy.

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Can the protagonist be a bad person?

• No

• Yes

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CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What is an antagonist?

• The person or thing that goes against the protagonist

• The person or thing that is friends with the protagonist

• The person or thing that is the main character

• The person or thing that is the leader of the text

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CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

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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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

A look back to an earlier event...

• Flashback
• Foreshadowing
• theme
• rising action

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CCSS.RL.9-10.5

Uses pronouns like he, she, they, it

• 1st person
• 2nd person
• 3rd person limited, objective, omniscient
• unreliable

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CCSS.RL.1.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

The narrator is the ____________.

• person telling the story
• main character in the story
• enemy of the main character
• person listening to the story

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CCSS.RL.1.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

Third person limited is

• the story told by one of the characters
• the narrator knows the thoughts and feelings of one person
• the narrator knows all the thoughts and feelings of all characters
• the story is told from the first person

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9