Setting Up Your Short Story Flip Book This is a hands-on graphic organizer to help you to remember! Do a nice job….I will ask to see this when I get back for a grade!

ELEMENTS OF A SHORT STORY Setting up your Flip Book Titles: THEME   ELEMENTS OF A SHORT STORY THEME POINT OF VIEW SETTING CONFLICT CHARACTERS PLOT PLOT DIAGRAM

THEME Fold up your title page and this goes in the theme section: The Central Idea or Belief in a short story.   Examples: Survival Friendship Overcoming Adversity Love Crime Does Not Pay Death is Part of the Life Cycle THEME

Point of View is the perspective the author used to tell the story.   1st Person—Told in the point of view of a character (Clue words: I, me, us, we) 2nd Person—Author is telling the story to you (Clue words: you, your, yourself) 3rd Person—The narrator is telling the story (Clue words: he, she, they, them) Omniscient (All knowing) POINT OF VIEW

Atmosphere—Season, Weather, Mood, Word Choices The setting of a short story is the time and place in which it happens.   Examples: Time—Era, Date, History Place—Location Atmosphere—Season, Weather, Mood, Word Choices SETTING

The conflict is the struggle of opposing forces. It brings the interest to the story.   External: Man vs Man Man vs Society Man vs Nature Man vs Supernatural Internal: Man vs Himself CONFLICT

Characters can be people or animals.   Main character (hero) = Protagonist Villain (opponent) = Antagonist Round Characters—Fully Developed, main characters Flat Characters—Friends, relatives, minor characters CHARACTERS

PLOT Plot is what happens and how it happens in a short story.   The exposition contains all of the necessary background information that is needed to understand the story. The rising action is what happens before the climax. The rising contains complications--anything that changes the motivation or obstacles of the characters: another bad guy is introduced, the hero is cast adrift to deal with new problems, etc. The climax is considered the highest point of interest of the story. This is where all the action of the story reaches a peak. It is usually the moment of greatest tension. The falling action deals with events which occur right after the climax. These events are usually the after- effects of the climax. Resolution This is the end of the falling action and the conclusion to the story. PLOT

Plot Diagram