Short story notes powerpoint

2. Setting
Time and place of the story
When and where the story happens
Examples:
1912, Venus, the future
Can a story have multiple settings?

3. Character
Person, animal, natural force, or object in the
story
Different types of characters:
Flat—one personality trait
Round—has many different personality traits
Static—never change
Dynamic—develops and grows during the story
Main—more important characters
Minor—less important characters

4. Protagonist—the main character of the story;
the good guy
Antagonist—the force or person in conflict with
the main character; the bad guy

5. Characterization
How the author makes the character come alive
Does this by providing physical descriptions,
character traits, thoughts, and feelings

6. Plot
the series of events in a story
Exposition
Rising action
Climax
Falling action
Resolution

7. Exposition (introduction)—beginning of a story
that gives background information, introduces
characters, and sometimes introduces conflict
Rising action—more complex actions occur,
problems are more complicated, and a desire to
find out what happens next is created

8. Climax—when the intensity of the story reaches
a peak and a turning point in action occurs that
affects the outcome of the story
Falling action—intensity of the story subsides
and the results of the major events wind down
and are described
Resolution—the ending of the story when the
problem or conflict is solved

9. Conflict
The problem of the story
Two types of conflict:
Internal
Man vs. self
External
Man vs. man
Man vs. nature
Man vs. society

10. Theme
The lesson you learn or the moral of the story
The main idea the author wishes to share with the
reader
The subject of the story is not the same as the
theme of the story
Theme cannot be love—what about love?
Theme is not usually stated directly in the story

11. Point of View
Who is telling the story
First Person –a character in the story is telling
the story.
I, me
Third Person – someone else is telling the story
Third person limited—narrator only knows one
character’s thoughts and feelings
Third person omniscient—all knowing; told by someone
who knows the thoughts and feelings of every character
in the story