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Unit 1 Short Story

Unit 1 Short Story. Literary Terms. Setting, Plot, Character Mood Point of View (POV) Conflict, internal conflict Suspension of Disbelief Foreshadowing Hyperbole Metaphor Simile Personification. Stories. All stories have elements that make up the story Like ingredients in a recipe

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Unit 1 Short Story

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  1. Unit 1Short Story Literary Terms

  2. Setting, Plot, Character • Mood • Point of View (POV) • Conflict, internal conflict • Suspension of Disbelief • Foreshadowing • Hyperbole • Metaphor • Simile • Personification

  3. Stories • All stories have elements that make up the story • Like ingredients in a recipe • Some ingredients/elements of stories include characters, setting, mood, theme, point of view • The author’s particular style is expressed with literary techniques like figurative language and foreshadowing

  4. Character • Someone involved in the story! • Characterization - developing a character using literary devices

  5. Setting • Time and place for a story

  6. Mood/Tone • The emotion the author creates for the reader in a scene

  7. Point of View (POV) • The vantage point from which a story is told • 1st Person – narrator is in the story (uses 1st person pronouns – “I,” “We,” “Us,” “Me”) • 3rd Person – an outside point of view (uses 3rd person pronouns – “He,” “She,” “It,” “They,” “Him,” “Her,” “Them”) • Omniscient – knows what all/most of the characters are thinking and feeling • Limited – knows only the thoughts and feelings of one/ some characters • 1st person limited; 3rd person limited; 1st person omniscient; 3rd person omniscient

  8. Plot • The series of events related to a central conflict (the story)

  9. Conflict • The struggle between two forces • Internal conflict – the struggle between two forces within a character

  10. Suspension of Disbelief • The reader willingly sets aside skepticism in order to engage in the work being read

  11. Theme • A central idea in a literary work Motif – repeated action or event that shows a theme

  12. Foreshadowing • Element of a story that hints at later events

  13. Figurative Language • Writing that is meant to be understood imaginatively rather than literally; helps you see things in a new way.

  14. Figurative Language • Hyperbole – an exaggeration made to intensify a part of the story • Metaphor – a comparison between 2 things; one thing becomes another (simile is a type of metaphor). simile: a comparison using like or as. • Personification – A nonliving thing given human characteristics

  15. Setting, Plot, Character • Mood • Point of View (POV) • Conflict, internal conflict • Suspension of Disbelief • Foreshadowing • Hyperbole • Metaphor • Simile • Personification

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