Short Story Style

1. Short Story Style Devices authors use to give their writing their personalized stamp.

2. Terms to Know • Style: The choices a writer makes that gives him/her a unique voice. • Topic. What does the writer choose to write about? For example, Poe writes about the strange and unusual. Bradbury writes science fiction. • Word Choice. What kinds of words does the author use? • Sentence Structure. Does the writer use long sentences or short simple sentences? • Figurative language. Does the author use metaphors, similes, personification, hyperbole, etc. • Voice. What is the author’s tone or personality?

3. Terms to Know • Allusion: References to a historical or literary well known person, place, or thing.

4. Terms to Know • Point of view: The perspective of the narrative. • First Person: One of the characters tells the story. • Third Person Omniscient: An all-knowing narrator tells the story. • Third Person Objective: An outside narrator tells the story as an observer • Third Person Selective: An outside narrator tells the story, but from one or more of the characters’ view point.

5. Terms to Know • Symbolism: One thing represents another.

6. Terms to Know • Foreshadowing: Hints of what is to come

7. Terms to Know • Flashback: Remembering what has already happened.