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Common Threads

Common Threads. Reviewing themes in Short Stories. “And of Clay We are Created” “Man in the Water” “Parable of the Good Samaritan” State Champion Versus Runner’s Conscience” “Good Samaritan Articles”. 6. “ Lamb to the Slaughter” 7. Notes From a Bottle” 8. “By the Waters of Babylon”

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Common Threads

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  1. Common Threads Reviewing themes in Short Stories

  2. “And of Clay We are Created” “Man in the Water” “Parable of the Good Samaritan” State Champion Versus Runner’s Conscience” “Good Samaritan Articles” 6. “ Lamb to the Slaughter” 7. Notes From a Bottle” 8. “By the Waters of Babylon” 9. “Everyday Use” 10. “The Pedestrian” 11. “Two Kinds” Our Short Stories

  3. Genres Genre: The category that a work of literature is classified under. First where do our titles fall. • Nonfiction • Fiction • Poetry • Drama • Myth

  4. Define/Grouping Themes Theme: the central idea or insight about human life revealed by a work of literature *In our selections we have seen at least two distinct themes. Brainstorm/make connections

  5. Setting • Setting: Time and place the story takes place

  6. Point of View • Point of view: perspective from which the writer narrates or tells a story • Omniscient : the narrator plays no part in the story but can tell us everything, including what the characters are thinking • Third-Person-Limited: Told from an outside perspective • First-Person: The narrator is the main character in the story

  7. Plot • Plot: Series of related events that make up a story or dram • Initial conflict • Complications • Climax • Resolution (denouement)

  8. Irony • Irony: Contrast or discrepancy between expectation and reality • Verbal irony: a speaker says one thing but means the opposite • Situational irony: what happens is the opposite of what is expected • Dramatic irony: when the audience knows something that the main character does not

  9. Ambiguity • Ambiguity: Element of uncertainty in a text, in which something can be interpreted in a number of different ways. • Which selections have we seen examples of ambiguity in? • Why have

  10. Review • Multiple choice • Vocabulary Review • Short Answer response

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