Introduction to Short Stories Essential Question

The Plot

• Plot - the events take make up a storyline
• Exposition
• Inciting Incident
• Rising Action
• Climax
• Falling Action
• Resolution

The part of a literary plot that occurs after the climax has been reached and the conflict has been resolved.

The Plot

• Plot - the events take make up a storyline
• Exposition
• Inciting Incident
• Rising Action
• Climax
• Falling Action
• Resolution

the conclusion of the story where the conflict is fully resolved.

Conflict

• the conflict is a literary element that involves a struggle between two opposing forces usually a protagonist and an antagonist
• External: a struggle between a character and an outside force (another character or nature)
• character vs. character
• character vs. nature
• character vs. society
• character vs. unknown
• character vs. technology
• character vs. supernatural
• Internal: a struggle happening within a character’s mind.
• character vs. self

Conflict

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Point of View

• the point of view is the narrator's position in relation to the story being told
• 1st person: The narrator is in the story
• EX: I woke up that morning and wanted to buy some ice cream.
• 3rd person: The narrator is an outsider telling the story
• EX: He woke up that morning and wanted to buy some ice cream.

3rd Person Point of View

Limited Point of View

• the outside narrator has limited knowledge about the characters
• the outside narrator only knows the thoughts and feelings of one character

Omniscient Point of View

• the outside narrator knows everything
• the outside narrator knows the thoughts and feelings of all of the characters