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Literary Devices. Short Story Objectives. Add plot (exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution). Elements of a short story: 1) Characters 2) plot 3)setting 4) theme.
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Literary Devices Short Story Objectives
Add plot (exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution)
Elements of a short story: • 1) Characters • 2) plot • 3)setting • 4) theme
1)Poetry - imaginative writing in which language, images, sounds, and rhythm combine to create a special emotional effect
4)setting - the physical and sometimes spiritual background of a story.
4 elements of setting: • 1) geographical location • 2)daily living of characters • 3)the time or period • 4)mood
6. suspense – wanting to know what will happen next • Question of how, what, who, and when?
8. Script - the complete text in a play • 9. Cast - list of characters
10. Stage directions - describe the action and tell the characters what to do and how to do it
11. Dialogue - what characters say • 12. Scenery - everything used to show the setting
14) drama- a literary work meant to be performed for an audience.
3 THINGS TO HAVE A DRAMA: • Story • Written in Action • Performed by Actors
Shotgun • Shout, accuse, scream • Confusion • Dangerous enemy • Destroy • Evening • Roar • Power failure • Aliens • Fear • Mob • Madness
Evening • Roar • Power failure • Aliens • Fear
Mob • Madness • Shotgun • Shout, accuse, scream • Confusion
Dangerous enemy • Destroy • (Sound bites) • Saved on Sample Playlist on Media Player • http://www.thetzsite.com/pages/theme.html • http://www.thetzsite.com/pages/download.html • http://www.thetzsite.com/pages/playback.html
Disease Spreads Quickly Through the TownLast week in the small town of Hokes Bluff, a severe case of the stomach flu swept the townspeople.
Monsters are Due Study Guide1.Who is the author? What do you know about him.2. Know the NEW definitions.3. Who are the monsters, and why?4. Prejudices can kill, and suspicion can destroy. What does that mean?
16. Metaphor - a figure of speech that compares two unlike things“That car is a lemon.”
18. Personification - a figure of speech in which something not human is given a human personality or characteristics.
19. Free verse - poems with irregular rhythms and line lengths
20. Rhythm - the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry
22. Symbol - any person, place, or thing that stands for something else.Ex: Eagles symbolize freedom.
23. flashback - an interruption of the action to tell about something that happened earlier in time.
Five Kinds: • 1) character’s actions • 2) character’s speech • 3)what other characters say • 4)revealing character’s thoughts • 5) directly commenting
25. Biography - a story about someone’s life written by someone else.
4 Kinds: • 1) struggle w/ nature • 2) struggle w/ another person • 3) struggle w/ society • 4) struggle within
27. Climax - the reader’s highest emotional involvement in the work
28. Parody - humorous imitation of a serious piece of literature
29. Irony - the contrast b/t what is expected to happen and really does
3 kinds of Irony: • 1) Dramatic irony- when the reader knows something the characters don’t
2)Verbal irony - when a character or author says something and means something else
3 kinds of Irony: • 3)irony of situation - when the situation turns out differently from expected
30. plot - the sequence of events • 31. Subplot - a story within another story
32. • Monologue - one speaker in front of an audience
33. Comedy - a literary work with a generally happy ending; can be serious at times
34. Myth - a story,often about gods and goddesses that attempts to give meaning to the world
35. Hero - chief character in story; usually brave, courageous, kind, honest, etc.