Reading the modern short story

Reading the modern short story

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  READING THE MODERNSHORT STORY: ITS ELEMENTS (PLOT, CONFLICT, TURNING POINT, CLIMAX, SETTING, CHARACTER, THEMES)
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  The Modern ShortStory The Modern Short Story. Like, a novel, the modern short story always shows us something of how people respond to life. The method of the short story is inevitably more limited than that of a novel. A novel tries to create a world, its own reality, within which its characters developed
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  Traditionalfolktales - are partof an oral tradition, which means they originated in the era before literacy and are passed down verbally from generation to generation. Common types of folk tales include fairy tales, fables, trickster tales, and 'why' stories What are examples of folktales? • The Pied Piper. • The Bremen Town Musicians. • Jack and the Beanstalk. • The Seven Ravens. • The Goose Girl. • Brother and Sister A brother drinks from a stream and turns into a deer just when the King and his hunting party ride through the woods. ... • The Frog King. • Goldilocks and the Three Bears.
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  RealisticStories - is agenre consisting of stories that could have actually occurred to people or animals in a believable setting. These stories resemble real life, and fictional characters within these stories react similarly to real people. PopularRealisticFictionBooks • The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover) John Green (Goodreads Author) ... • Wonder (Hardcover) R.J. Palacio. ... • Thirteen Reasons Why (Hardcover) Jay Asher (Goodreads Author) ..
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  Biographicalstories - or simplybio, is a detailed description of a person's life. It involves more than just the basic facts like education, work, relationships, and death; it portrays a person's experience of these life events. ... One in-depth form of biographical coverage is called legacy writing. The vast majority of biography examples are written about people who are or were famous, such as politicians, actors, athletes, and so on.
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  Origin of theModern Short Story Who invented the modern short story? Therefore, in many ways the true beginnings of the modern short story are to be found in America. One might posit the publication of Nathaniel Hawthorne's Twice-Told Tales in 1837 as a starting point
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  Elements of Fiction
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  Setting of a pieceof literature is the time and place in which the story takes place. The definition of setting can also include social statuses, weather, historical period, and details about immediate surroundings. ... The setting provides the backdrop to the story and helps create mood. RomeoandJulietSetting It is set in Verona, Italy in the 1300s, though it was written in the 1500s. Shakespeare's Verona is not a fleshed out place as a real-life, physical city, but rather as a convenient backdrop for a crazy story line. ... When Romeo comes to her balcony, their two settings collide.
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  Plot is a literaryterm used to describe the events that make up a story, or the main part of a story. These events relate to each other in a pattern or a sequence. The structure of a novel depends on the organization of events in the plot of the story RomeoandJulietPlotSummary “It is a tragic love story where the two main characters, Romeo and Juliet, are supposed to be sworn enemies but fall in love. Due to their families' ongoing conflict, they cannot be together, so they kill themselves because they cannot cope with being separated from one another.”
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  Exposition – Providesthe background information needed to properly understand the story, such as the protagonist, the antagonist, and the basic conflict of the setting. Rising Action-The rising action of a story is the section of the plot leading up to the climax, in which the tension stemming from the story's central conflict grows through successive plot developments. Climax- The climax ("staircase" and "ladder") or turning point of a narrative work is its point of highest tension and drama, or it is the time when the action starts during which the solution is given. The climax of a story is a literary element
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  Character A character isa person, animal, being, creature, or thing in a story. Writers use characters to perform the actions and speak dialogue, moving the story along a plot line. A story can have only one character (protagonist) and still be a complete story. Characters In Romeo and Juliet Romeo is a Montague and Juliet is a Capulet. There are lots of characters in this play, but the main ones are: Romeo. Juliet. Other key characters include: • Tybalt - Juliet's cousin. • Mercutio - Romeo's close friend. • Benvolio - Romeo's cousin. • Capulet - Juliet's father.
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  Point of View refersto who is telling or narrating a story. A story can be told in three different ways: first person, second person, and third person. Writers use point of view to express the personal emotions of either themselves or their characters What is the point of Romeo and Juliet? • It is a love which is all-absorbing, overmastering. It is a love which is literally unto death. When Romeo and Juliet are laid in the tomb, the feud which, for so long a time had existed between the Capulets and Montagues, is also buried in the same tomb. This is the theme of the drama.
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  Conflict Basically we candefine conflict as a struggle between opposing forces - two characters, a character and nature, or even an internal struggle - conflict provides a level of angst into a story that engages the reader and makes him or her invested in finding out what happens. The major conflict in Romeo and Juliet is not between the two main characters, but between their families, the Montagues and the Capulets. All of the other problems in the plot stem from this feud, and the two lovers must keep their love a secret and go to great lengths to fight the greater forces against them.
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  Style, Tone, andMood The special language of a particular work of literature, the distinctive way in which a writer expresses himself or herself, is what we mean when we speak of the writers style. An authors style depends on diction, syntax, rhythm and imagery as well as experiments with litery form. All these elements help to create the individual voices we hear in a work of prose or poetry. Diction-is the word choice, the vocabulary that characterizes a speaker. Syntax- grammar and sentence structure is closely related to diction, short simple words are often connected to short, simple sentence patterns, pared down pose. At the other end of the spectrum are the rich, metaphorical language and frequently complex sentence. Imagery- the original, evocative and non literal use of language, is part of an authors repertoire. Images convey feelings, ideas or sensory impressions with concrete pictures.