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intro to short story
intro to short story tiz
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| short stories-egyptians | entertainment, recording |
| short stories- greek and romans | religious ideas, myths |
| short stories- biblical | one god and how he wants us to behave |
| short stories- middle ages | fables, epics, not talking about gods |
| short stories- now/ who started them | edgar allan poe, nathaniel hawthorne |
| 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 |
| plot | events in a story |
| conflicts | when two opposing forces meet, two kinds |
| internal conflict | a conflict within a person |
| external conflict | a conflict where the forces can be seen |
| antagonist | a person who tries to stop a protagonist |
| protagonist | who the reader wants to prevail |
| theme | a lesson in a story |
| how to find theme | find internal conflict, what was decided, what happened |
| setting | time and place that a story takes place |
| mood | feeling, atmosphere |
| foreshadowing | connected to irony, hints |
| symbols | something that has a meaning of its own but also represents something else |
| figurative language | creating a picture in a reader's mind, simile, metaphor, hyperbole, alliteration, personification |
| simile | an indirect comparison, figurative language |
| metaphor | direct comparison, figurative language |
| personification | giving human characteristics to inhuman objects, figurative language |
| hyperbole | an exaggeration meant to create an image, figurative language |
| alliteration | two or more words near eachother that begin with the same sound, figurative language |
| direct character description | gives facts about the character |
| indirect character description | describes the character's actions |
| point of view | the way in which a reader is presented with the materials of a story |
| first person | told from a character's perspective, narrator uses "i", ask yourself "do i trust the narrator?" |
| third person | writer isn't in a story, objective, limited omniscient, omniscient |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| irony | the opposite of what you would expect |
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horseybop
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