2. Short Story Essential Questions: 1. How do writers create short stories that engage the reader? 2. How does a writer develop a theme in a short story? 3. How does a writer use language devices (diction, imagery, symbolism, figurative language, point of view, motif, foreshadowing, and irony) for specific effects in short stories? 4. How does a writer develop a character in a short story? 5. How can setting impact the meaning of a story?

3. 6.How does an author create mood? 7.How does point of view affect the meaning of a story? 8.How does a writer’s use of foreshadowing and irony impact the meaning of a story? 9.How can we determine an author’s purpose? 10.Why do we read short stories? 11.How are the themes and subjects of short stories relevant to our lives? Short Story Essential Questions Continued…

4. Plot is the literary element that describes the structure of a story. It shows the causal arrangement of events and actions within a story. Teaching Plot Structure Through Short Stories Exposition Beginning Rising Action Climax Falling Action End Resolution/ Denouement

5. Types of Linear Plots Plots can be told in Chronological order Flashback In media res (in the middle of things) when the story starts in the middle of the action without exposition

6. Plot Components Exposition: the start of the story, the situation before the action starts Rising Action: the series of conflicts and crisis in the story that lead to the climax Climax: the turning point, the most intense moment—either mentally or in action Falling Action: all of the action which follows the climax Resolution: the conclusion, the tying together of all of the threads

7. So what makes up a plot?

8. Conflict Conflict is the dramatic struggle between two forces in a story. Without conflict, there is no plot. Conflict is the dramatic struggle between two forces in a story. Without conflict, there is no plot.

9. Who is important in the conflict? Protagonist- the principal character in a literary work Antagonist- the character that contends with or opposes the protagonist

10. Types of Conflict Human vs. Nature Human vs. Society Human vs. machine/ technology Interpersonal Conflict Human vs. Human

11. Types of Conflict Continued Internal Conflict Man vs. self