Transcript The Short Story

The Story
Basic Elements
Setting
• Time and place of the
story’s action
• Includes ideas, customs,
values, and beliefs
Characters
• Actors in the story’s plot
• Examples: people, animals,
or whatever the writer
chooses
Types of Characters
• Protagonist
–Main character
• Antagonist
–is in conflict with the main
character
Point of View
• Relationship of the narrator
to the story
• First person
–Narrator is a character in
the story; referred to as “I”
Point of View
• Third person limited
–Narrator reveals the
thoughts of only one
character; referred to as
“he” or “she”
Point of View
• Third person omniscient
–Narrator knows everything
about the story’s events
and reveals thoughts of all
characters
Theme
• Central idea or message
of a story
Plot
• Sequence of events in a
story
• What happens in the
story
Conflict
• Struggle between opposing
forces
–External--between a character
and an outside force
–Internal--takes place within
the mind of the character
5 Stages of Plot:
• Exposition
–introduces the story’s
characters, setting, and conflict
• Rising Action
–occurs as complications or
twists of the conflict occur
5 Stages of Plot:
• Climax
–emotional high-point of the
story
• Falling Action
–logical result of the climax
5 Stages of Plot:
• Resolution
–presents the final
outcome of the story