4H: literature short stories

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 4

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literature - short stories

What is a short story?

A short story is a work of fiction that can be read in one sitting—usually between 20 minutes to an hour.

Parts of a short story

A short story has several key elements:

• Setting – one time and place
• 1-2 main characters
• Single plot – one storyline
• Central theme or moral lesson
• Uses literary devices

Important vocabulary

• setting
• plot
  
  
  p. 3 booklet 

Setting?

plot?

What is a story mountain?

A story mountain is the way a short story is structured.

The basic parts of a short story are:

• Beginning (identify the main character, the problem, and the setting
• The rising action (events that happen to main character)
• Climax (turning point)
• Falling Action (how the character solves his/her problem)

Characters

• protagonist 
• antagonist 
• flat
• round 
• stock

flat / round / stock?

More vocabulary

• Point of view 
• Theme 
• Tone / mood 
  
  
• Foreshadowing           --> ''I have a bad feeling about this'' 
• metaphor / similie 
• Diction (word choice)  

American civil war

• 1861-1865
• Between the North (Union) and the South (Confederates)
• South wanted to secede
• North had more people and more money
• South didn’t want to lose the right to have slaves
• Yankees were soldiers from the North

Open booklet to ''An Occurrence by Owl Creek''  p. 9

Read the first paragraph

• What is happening?
• How do you know?
  

Open booklet to ''An Occurrence by Owl Creek'' p. 9

Read the first paragraph

• What is happening?
• How do you know?

Finish reading the story

• Read the rest of the short story on your own
• Answer the 6 Questions at the end of the story
  - how do you know? -- explain! Give evidence and examples from the text
• Be ready to explain your answers