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intro to short story tiz

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short stories-egyptians   entertainment, recording  
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short stories- greek and romans   religious ideas, myths  
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short stories- biblical   one god and how he wants us to behave  
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short stories- middle ages   fables, epics, not talking about gods  
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short stories- now/ who started them   edgar allan poe, nathaniel hawthorne  
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characteristics of a modern short story   between 500 and 1500 words,2-60 pages, slice of life, reveals a character without it developing, one to three main characters, ironic ending  
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plot   events in a story  
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conflicts   when two opposing forces meet, two kinds  
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internal conflict   a conflict within a person  
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external conflict   a conflict where the forces can be seen  
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antagonist   a person who tries to stop a protagonist  
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protagonist   who the reader wants to prevail  
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theme   a lesson in a story  
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how to find theme   find internal conflict, what was decided, what happened  
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setting   time and place that a story takes place  
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mood   feeling, atmosphere  
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foreshadowing   connected to irony, hints  
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symbols   something that has a meaning of its own but also represents something else  
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figurative language   creating a picture in a reader's mind, simile, metaphor, hyperbole, alliteration, personification  
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simile   an indirect comparison, figurative language  
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metaphor   direct comparison, figurative language  
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personification   giving human characteristics to inhuman objects, figurative language  
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hyperbole   an exaggeration meant to create an image, figurative language  
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alliteration   two or more words near eachother that begin with the same sound, figurative language  
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direct character description   gives facts about the character  
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indirect character description   describes the character's actions  
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point of view   the way in which a reader is presented with the materials of a story  
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first person   told from a character's perspective, narrator uses "i", ask yourself "do i trust the narrator?"  
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third person   writer isn't in a story, objective, limited omniscient, omniscient  
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third person objective   only reporting on what is seen and heard, movie camera perspective, no opinions, reader only knows feelings that are expressed out loud  
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third person limited omniscient   reports on thoughts and feelings of one or two main characters, the reader "reads the minds" of these characters, this POV manipulates the reader's thoughts  
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third person omniscient   narrator reports on the thoughts and feelings of all the main characters, God-like perspective, still able to manipulate the reader b/c some characters' feelings are reported on more than others  
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irony   the opposite of what you would expect  
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