Lesson 10-11: The Black Cat – Literary Analysis 10/2/2017

Learning Objective To analyze a short story using the command terms To explain how the author uses foreshadowing, setting, and mood to create suspense in their stories. 2

Plot Plot is what happens and how it happens in a narrative. A narrative is any work that tells a story, such as a short story, a novel, a drama, or a narrative poem.

Parts of a Plot Exposition – Introduction to the setting, mood, characters, conflict. Inciting incident – event that gives rise to conflict (opening situation) Rising Action- events that occur as result of central conflict (rising action) Climax- highest point of interest or suspense of story Falling Action- when conflict ends Resolution- when characters go back to their life before the conflict 4

Diagram of Plot Climax Falling Action Development/ Rising Action Introduction Resolution Inciting incident/ Big Event

Little Red Riding Hood Exposition – Young girl wearing a red coat is sent to bring food to her sick grandmother Rising Action – Meets wolf, wolf tells her to pick flowers on the way to her grandma’s house Wolf gets to her GM’s house and eats the grandmother

Little Red Riding Hood Climax – Girl gets to GM’s house, comments on how her grandmother looks, wolf jumps out of bed and eats the girl Falling Action – lumberjack hears the girls scream, rushes to rescue the girl, kills the wolf and rips its chest open Resolution – the girl and GM climb out of the wolf’s stomach and are reunited.

Foreshadowing when an author mentions or hints at something that will happen later in the story Nice use of the line to show looking forward. Language - later in the story…. Something about that word. Don’t know a better replacement… just a thought. 8

Little Red Riding Hood Once upon a time, there was a little girl who lived with her mother. Her mother asked her to take her old and lonely grandmother some food one day. "Don't stop along the way. Go straight to your Grandma's house and back. Don't talk to any strangers and watch out for the wolf in the woods! Now get along!" Before this slide, there could be a transition slide. Something that allows the reader to know what is coming next. .. Now you will will portions from a story… Foreshadowing 10

Outline the plot of the story Identify two examples of foreshadowing in the text and then Explain what they tell the reader about what will happen

Use a contextual clue to Justify that this short story has an element of the Gothic/Horror genre Justify this statement: The person telling the story is an unreliable narrator. Use contextual clues to support your point.

Response Paragraph Point Create a topic sentence with the main idea of the paragraph Evidence use visual or written textual references or supporting ideas Explain Provide relevant details so ideas are clear and well-explained Link connect to the next paragraph, or link back to something that has already been said by restating in a different way or extending the idea

Point of View Refers to narrator who is telling the story. First Person Third Person Limited Third Person Omniscient

First Person When a story is told in first-person point of view, the narrator is a participant in the story. Uses first-person pronouns – I, me, my

Third Person Limited The narrator is outside of the story. Uses third-person pronouns – he, she, his her, them, their. Knowledge is limited to what is experienced, thought, or felt by one character in the story.

Unreliable Narrator Sometimes the author chooses to tell the story through a narrator that does not see the story as it truly is—this is an unreliable narrator Sometimes, the first person narrator is even mentally insane, a liar, an exaggerator, depressed, mentally challenged, very young Is an unreliable narrator someone you can trust? 18

Third-Person Omniscient The narrator is outside of the story. Uses third-person pronouns – he, she, his her, them, their. The narrator knows everything that needs to be known about the characters and events in the story. Can read character’s thoughts, feelings, and motives.

Assignment Now, in pairs, rewrite The Tell-Tale Heart from a third person perspective, as if it were a news article. First, summarize the events of the story by making a list of what happened in time order. Then, make sure you take out any internal thoughts or feelings of the narrator that a newspaper reporter would not know about. For example, would a newspaper reporter know that the narrator wanted to kill the old man because of his eye? If so, how would he know that? Then, add information that a newspaper reporter might find out that the narrator did not tell us. For example, would a newspaper reporter get any information by asking the narrator’s neighbors about him?