H5 - week 2 literature review

• Engels
• Middelbare school

Today's objectives

Literature Review of 5 short stories 

Work in pairs

What's the right order of events in a
story's plot?

1. Introduction / inciting incident / rising action / falling action / resolution
2. Introduction / inciting incident / rising action / climax / falling action / resolution
3. Introduction / story / end
4. Introduction / falling action / rising action / resolution / climax / inciting incident

What's a short story?

1. A story of more than 20 pages
2. A one-page story
3. A story of 3-5 or up to 20 pages
4. A story of 10-12 pages

What is the setting in a story?

1. Characters
2. Time
3. Time & location
4. When you set the table

Describe the setting of
"Lamb to the Slaughter" & how it is irmportant/contributes to the theme

What was the theme of Lamb to the Slaughter?

Explain the title of Lamb to the Slaughter?

What is the story of Sredni Vashtar about?

Who causes conflict for whom in Sredni Vashtar?

1. The ferret for Mrs. De Ropp
2. Conradin for Mrs. De Ropp
3. The maid for Mrs. De Ropp
4. Mrs. De Ropp for Conradin

What is the definition of "Theme"?

1. A story's plot
2. A universal idea/central idea about life
3. A motto (for example: "better late than never")
4. The theory behind short story writing

What is the definition for "Exposition"?

1. The introduction of setting, situation and main characters
2. The part where the antagonist is "exposed"
3. When the plot deals with paintings in an exposition
4. Exposition is the beginning of the story

What is "conflict" in a short story?

1. When two people argue
2. When you have different interests
3. What prevents the main character from getting what (s)he wants
4. When the antagonist says no to he protagonist.

What are the two types of conflict?

1. Internal/Extraterrestrial
2. Internal/external
3. Good/bad
4. person vs fate

What is internal conflict?
What is external conflict?

Give the setting of one of the short stories and its importance to the story

Give for all five short stories, the protagonist(s):

Who causes conflict for whom in a short story?

1. Protagonist for Antagonist
2. Secondary Character for Antagonist
3. Boohoo I 've never paid any attention
4. Antagonist for Protagonist.

A narrative twist =

1. a naughty ending
2. a surprise ending
3. more details at the end
4. Huh? Whasthat?

What does the title "Mr. Know-all" mean?

Explain the title "The gift of the Magi"

What's a narrative hook?

What is the climax in a short story?

1. When they sleep together
2. When they actually like each other
3. Beats me, but on the test I'll know
4. Highest point of emotion AND character resolves struggle

What is the literary term for "looking backward"

1. foreshadowing
2. flashback
3. back-looking
4. thinking

The Lottery
Setting/characters/conflict/theme/climax/title

Sredini Vashtar
Setting/characters/ conflict/theme/climax/title

Mr. Know-all
Setting/characters/conflict/theme/climax/title/
narrative twist

Lamb to the Slaughter
Setting/characters/conflict/theme/climax/
title/narrative twist

The gift of the Magi
Setting/characters/conflict/theme/climax/
title/narrative twist

Which short story did you like best?
Why?

The Landlady

              An extra story by Roald Dahl 

You don't need to know this for the test,

but you could read it and try to analyse it for setting, characters, theme, etc. 

The text and a  website with analysis are given  in the next two slides.

What have you learned?

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