1. Thank You, Ma’am The Necklace The Tell Tale Heart
Short Story Unit
Thank You, Ma’am
The Necklace
The Tell Tale Heart

2. Three Little Pigs

3. Plot Diagram
Plot Diagram

4. Plot Diagram

5. Parts of Plot Plot: The sequence of events in a story.
Exposition: The basic situation of a story— this is where the reader learns the background information necessary to understand the story.

6. Exposition Example
The reader learns Liz lives in an apartment by herself.
Liz is 25-years-old.
Liz is tired from a long day at work as a nurse.
Liz is talking on her cell-phone to her best friend Julie as she walks to the door of her own home.

7. Parts of Plot
Complication (Rising Action): The part of the story which occurs between the exposition and climax. Here is where conflicts occur which build up the story and make it interesting.

8. Complication: Rising Action Example
Liz hears some strange thumping sounds coming from the inside of her apartment as she is about to put her key in the door.
Liz tells Julie she hears something.
Julie suggests she calls the police.
Liz tells Julie that she was probably imagining the sounds but still hears them.

9. Complication Continued
Liz opens the door to her apartment and sets her bag by the door.
Her heart jumps when she sees a pair of black shoes peeking out from under her living room curtains.
The curtain moves slightly.

10. Parts of Plot
Climax: The main conflict is typically resolved at this place. This is also known as the turning point or highest point of action in a story.

11. Climax Example
Liz bravely walks up to the curtain and picks up a heavy candlestick on the way.
She strikes the candlestick against the curtain, and at the same time, something grabs her hand from behind the curtain.
Liz drops the candlestick, and a tall man with a black mask emerges from behind the curtain.
Suddenly, her front door is flung open.

12. Types of Conflict
Internal Conflict: A conflict that occurs within a character’s mind. (man vs. himself)

13. External Conflict: A conflict that occurs between a character and an outside force. Man vs. man, man vs. nature, for example.

14. Warm-up Describe in 3 sentences or less what a plot diagram is…..
go back to exposition

15. Elements of a plot

16. Parts of Plot
Resolution (Falling Action): The part of the story which occurs after the climax and continues to the end of the story. Here is where loose ends are tied up toward the end of the story.

17. Falling Action Example
The police emerge, and the masked man releases Liz from his grasp.
He quickly exits her home through the open window, but is met with the gun from a policeman.
Julie had called the police for Liz.
Liz realizes many of her possessions are knocked over or broken.

18. Parts of Plot
Resolution: The final outcome of the story.

19. Resolution Example
The police try to comfort Liz while taking her statement.
Liz packs some possessions to take to Julie’s house for the night.
She decides to invest in a second lock for her door in the morning and to install a burglar system. She knows it will be difficult to continue living in her home.

20. Conflict in more detail
Man vs Man:When a character has an argument or disagreement with another character.
Man vs Nature: When a character has a problem with outside forces like weather or land.
Man vs Self: When a character develops an internal struggle between his thoughts and ideas.
Man vs Society:When a character disagrees with the values, laws, or beliefs of a group.

21. Three Little Pigs Plot diagram Answers

22. Warm-up-Do you agree? Yes or no? Explain.
Answer this question in your notebook?
Parents are responsible for their children’s actions.

23. Protagonist/Antagonist
The protagonist is the main character, hero, or good guy faced with a problem or struggle.
The antagonist is a person who opposes another person.

24. Thank You, Ma’am
Who is the protagonist?
Who is the antagonist in?

25. Character Analysis
Character Analysis

26. The Necklace-
In Mandarin with English Subtitles

27. Theme...what is it?

28. Irony
the use of words that mean the opposite of what you really think especially in order to be funny
a situation that is strange or funny because things happen in a way that seems to be the opposite of what you expected
Webster’s Dictionary

29. What is Ironic in the The Necklace?
List some examples….
1) Madame Loisel gave up 10 years of her life just to tell a lie that she lost the necklace.
2) The necklace was fake, it's irony because Mme. Loisel had never expected to borrow a fake necklace from her rich friend, Mme. Fostier.
3) The necklace was supposed to make Mme. Loisel look rich but it actually made her poorer than before.

30. Metaphor and Similes

31. Similes and Metaphors
Both similes and metaphors are forms of comparison that compare words in a sentence.
They can be used to make your sentences more interesting. How are similes and
metaphors different?

32. Similes and Metaphors
A simile is a word that compares words in a sentence. You can usually tell if a simile is present in a sentence when you see the words as or like.
Don ate his salad like a vacuum cleaner.
His arms were weak and felt like noodles.
The thunder was as loud as fireworks.
You can see that the underlined words in the sentences above are compared to each other. The words as and like are bolded to show that a simile occurs in this sentence.

33. Personification

34. The Tell Tale Heart
Edgar Allan Poe uses literary elements to develop his sense of style within his writings.
Can you find examples of Metaphors, Personification and Simile?