2 pt 3 pt 4 pt 5pt 1 pt 2 pt 3 pt 4 pt 5 pt 1 pt 2pt 3 pt 4pt 5 pt 1pt 2pt 3 pt 4 pt 5 pt 1 pt 2 pt 3 pt 4pt 5 pt 1pt Short Stories Parts of Speech SettingsAuthors Literary Terms
The story of a nymph and a vain young man.
“Echo and Narcissus”
Characters were Kevin, Louis, and Louise?
“User Friendly”
The only narrative poem you read in class this quarter.
“The Highwayman”
Short story that took place in China.
“Homesick”
“Poor” Laurie told his parents about this “horrible” child in kindergarten.
“Charles”
It shows a relationship between a noun or a pronoun and another word in a sentence. Hint: Anywhere a cat may go.
preposition
It often ends with the suffix –ly. It modifies verbs, adjectives, and other words like itself.
adverb
It modifies (meaning that it tells more about a noun or a pronoun.
adjective
It expresses emotion and is not related to another word in the sentence.
interjection
A word that joins words or groups of words.
conjunction
Along the Yangtze River.
“Homesick”
In Colorado in the late 19 th Century.
“Hearts and Hands”
In and near an Inn in Great Britain in the 1600 or 1700’s.
“Highwayman”
At a school in New York City in the 1960’s or 1970’s.
“Miss Awful”
In the Silicon Valley in the 1970’s?
“User Friendly”
Author who retold the story about the myth of “Echo and Narcissus.”
Roger Lancelyn Green
William Sydney Porter was better known as …
O. Henry
The person who wrote about computers and people.
T. Ernesto Bethancourt
Her parents were missionaries to the Orient.
Jeanne Fritz
The author who obviously knew something about old style teachers.
Arthur Cavanaugh
The underlying meaning of a story that cannot be explained in one or two words.
theme
These are always found with a story and they often give the reader some insight into what the story might be about.
the title
The time and place in which the story takes place.
setting
The point of view where the story is told by a character who refers to himself or herself as “I.”
first person
A narrator who is a god-like observer who knows everything that is going on in the story and who can see into each character’s heart and mind.
omniscient