1 / 54

Literary Elements in Short Stories

Explore key literary terms and elements from popular short stories such as The Sniper, Thank You, M’am, and The Interlopers. Dive into plot structure, themes, conflicts, and more.

rmajors
Download Presentation

Literary Elements in Short Stories

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript


  1. Short Story Jeopardy! Lit Elements Sniper Thank You, M’am Interlopers Poison $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $200 $200 $200 $200 $200 $300 $300 $300 $300 $300 $400 $400 $400 $400 $400 $500 $500 $500 $500 $500 Final Jeopardy

  2. $100 Literary Elements This is a series of related events that make up a story.

  3. $100 Literary Elements What is plot?

  4. $200 Literary Elements They are the five elements of plot.

  5. $200 Literary Elements What are exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution?

  6. $300 Literary Terms The author’s message or lesson learned

  7. $300 Literary Terms What is theme?

  8. $400 Literary Terms In this perspective the narrator knows everything about the story and its characters (including private thoughts, past, and future action).

  9. $400 Literary Terms What is third person omniscient point of view?

  10. $500 Literary Terms The reader is led to believe one ending will occur, but the opposite happens; the sudden twist.

  11. $500 Literary Terms What is situational irony?

  12. $100 Sniper The protagonist of the story

  13. $100 Sniper Who is the Republican sniper?

  14. $200 Sniper The setting, including city and country.

  15. $200 Sniper What is Dublin, Ireland?

  16. $300 SniperWar tears families apart.

  17. $300 Sniper What is the theme?

  18. $400 Sniper The sniper curses himself and curses the war. Throwing his gun down, he almost shoots himself and then laughs. Name the conflict.

  19. $400 Sniper What is internal conflict or man vs. himself?

  20. $500 Sniper This ironic situation of this story.

  21. $500 Sniper What is his brother is his enemy?

  22. $100 Thank You, M’am The two main characters meet under these circumstances.

  23. $100 Thank You, M’am What is Roger stealing Ms. Jones’ purse.

  24. $200 Thank You, M’am The setting of the story.

  25. $200 Thank You, M’am What is Harlem, NY?

  26. $300 Thank You, M’am One random act of kindness can change a person’s life.

  27. $300 Thank You, M’am What is the theme?

  28. $400 Thank You, M’am The full name of the kind woman.

  29. $400 Thank You, M’am What is Luella Bates Washington Jones?

  30. $500 Thank You, M’am The turning point or climax of the story.

  31. $500 Thank You, M’am What is Roger offers to go to the store for Ms. Jones?

  32. $100 Interlopers The reason for Ulrich’s and Georg’s hatred.

  33. $100 Interlopers What is a family feud?

  34. $200 Interlopers This character introduced in the exposition, in quest of human enemy.

  35. $200 Interlopers Who is Ulrich Von Gradwitz?

  36. $300 Interlopers The conflicts of man vs. nature.

  37. $300 Interlopers What is the tree falling on the men and the wolves eating the men?

  38. $400 Interlopers It is implied that the men are eaten by wolves in this part of the plot structure.

  39. $400 Interlopers What is the resolution?

  40. $500 Interlopers Name the situational irony.

  41. $500 Interlopers What is the sudden twist when we think they will be saved, the wolves come?

  42. $100 Poison The country of this story’s setting.

  43. $100 Poison What is India?

  44. $200 Poison Name the creature in Harry’s bed.

  45. $200 Poison What is a krait?

  46. $300 Poison The foreshadowing of Harry’s harsh words.

  47. $300 Poison What is his mouth twitching?

  48. $400 Poison Name the three conflicts: Man vs. man Man vs. nature Man vs. himself

  49. $400 Poison What is the argument between Harry and the doctor, the poisonous snake in Harry’s bed, and Harry’s internal struggle with racism.

  50. $500 Poison The true poison the title refers to.

More Related