1. SHORT STORY UNIT 1: Mood, Setting, Plot

2. What is a short story?
… a work of fiction that centers on a single idea and can be read in one sitting. It usually has one main conflict.

3. Setting and Mood
Setting: the time and place where action unfolds in the story, drama, or other literary work
Mood: the feelings evoked in the mind of the reader. Diction (word choice) affects the mood.

4. Setting How does the setting affect the story? ● CONFLICT ● CHARACTER
● MOOD
● SYMBOLISM
Compare to The Count of Monte Cristo

5. Narratives follow a plot line …
The series
of events
in a
narrative (story)
Narratives follow a plot line …

6. Plot Line __________________ __________________ _____________

7. Plot Line __________________ __________________ _____________
A. Exposition
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8. Plot Line __________________ __________________ _____________
A. Exposition
__________________
Key characters, setting, and basic situation are introduced. Tone and mood are established.

9. Plot Line __________________ __________________ _____________
A. Exposition
B. Narrative Hook
__________________
Key characters, setting, and basic situation are introduced. Tone and mood are established.

10. Plot Line __________________ __________________ _____________
A. Exposition
B. Narrative Hook
__________________
Key characters, setting, and basic situation are introduced. Tone and mood are established.
The author hopes to “grab” or “hook” your attention. The conflict is introduced.

11. __________________ __________________ _____________ _____________
Plot Line
__________________
C. Rising Action
_____________
_____________
A. Exposition
B. Narrative Hook
__________________
Key characters, setting, and basic situation are introduced. Tone and mood are established.
The author hopes to “grab” or “hook” your attention. The conflict is introduced.

12. __________________ __________________ _____________ _____________
Plot Line
__________________
C. Rising Action
A series of conflicts that build upon each other … the protagonist must address the conflict.
_____________
_____________
A. Exposition
B. Narrative Hook
__________________
Key characters, setting, and basic situation are introduced. Tone and mood are established.
The author hopes to “grab” or “hook” your attention. The conflict is introduced.

13. __________________ __________________ _____________ _____________
Plot Line
__________________
D. Climax
C. Rising Action
A series of conflicts that build upon each other … the protagonist must address the conflict.
_____________
_____________
A. Exposition
B. Narrative Hook
__________________
Key characters, setting, and basic situation are introduced. Tone and mood are established.
The author hopes to “grab” or “hook” your attention. The conflict is introduced.

14. Plot Line __________________ __________________ _____________
D. Climax
The turning point of the story in which the character directly addresses the conflict Highest point of tension …
C. Rising Action
A series of conflicts that build upon each other … the protagonist must address the conflict.
_____________
_____________
A. Exposition
B. Narrative Hook
__________________
Key characters, setting, and basic situation are introduced. Tone and mood are established.
The author hopes to “grab” or “hook” your attention. The conflict is introduced.

15. __________________ __________________ _____________ _____________
Plot Line
__________________
D. Climax
The turning point of the story in which the character directly addresses the conflict Highest point of tension …
C. Rising Action
E. Falling Action
A series of conflicts that build upon each other … the protagonist must address the conflict.
_____________
_____________
A. Exposition
B. Narrative Hook
__________________
Key characters, setting, and basic situation are introduced. Tone and mood are established.
The author hopes to “grab” or “hook” your attention. The conflict is introduced.

16. __________________ __________________ _____________ _____________
Plot Line
__________________
D. Climax
The turning point of the story in which the character directly addresses the conflict Highest point of tension …
C. Rising Action
E. Falling Action
A series of conflicts that build upon each other … the protagonist must address the conflict.
The events that occur as a result of the climatic event … events leading to the denouement
_____________
_____________
A. Exposition
B. Narrative Hook
__________________
Key characters, setting, and basic situation are introduced. Tone and mood are established.
The author hopes to “grab” or “hook” your attention. The conflict is introduced.

17. __________________ __________________ _____________ _____________
Plot Line
__________________
D. Climax
The turning point of the story in which the character directly addresses the conflict Highest point of tension …
C. Rising Action
E. Falling Action
A series of conflicts that build upon each other … the protagonist must address the conflict.
The events that occur as a result of the climatic event … events leading to the denouement
_____________
_____________
A. Exposition
B. Narrative Hook
F. Denouement
__________________
Key characters, setting, and basic situation are introduced. Tone and mood are established.
The author hopes to “grab” or “hook” your attention. The conflict is introduced.

18. The conflict is resolved … the story ends
Plot Line
__________________
D. Climax
The turning point of the story in which the character directly addresses the conflict Highest point of tension …
C. Rising Action
E. Falling Action
A series of conflicts that build upon each other … the protagonist must address the conflict.
The events that occur as a result of the climatic event … events leading to the denouement
_____________
_____________
A. Exposition
B. Narrative Hook
F. Denouement
__________________
Key characters, setting, and basic situation are introduced. Tone and mood are established.
The author hopes to “grab” or “hook” your attention. The conflict is introduced.
The conflict is resolved … the story ends

19. The conflict is resolved … the story ends
__________________
Plot Line
D. Climax
The turning point of the story in which the character directly addresses the conflict. Highest point of tension …
C. Rising Action
E. Falling Action
A series of conflicts that build upon each other … the protagonist must address the conflict.
The events that occur as a result of the climatic event … events leading to the denouement
_____________
_____________
A. Exposition
B. Narrative Hook
__________________
F. Denouement
Key characters, setting, and basic situation are introduced. Tone and mood are established.
The author hopes to “grab” or “hook” your attention. The conflict is introduced.
The conflict is resolved … the story ends

20. “The Bet” by Anton Chekhov

21. A priori: something is considered true, without being tested.
Frivolous (adj): not serious; care-free
Trifle (noun): little value; not important
Compulsory (adj): required; mandatory
Caprice (noun): whimsical; sudden, unpredictable change
Threshold (noun): entrance of a house; starting point
Zealous (adj): diligent; ardently active; devoted

22. 8. Procured (verb): to get something; to obtain
Immense (adj): gargantuan; vast; huge
Indiscriminately (adverb): lacking judgment
Treatise (noun): formal essay … systemically written
Spar (noun): a pole used as a mast; nautical gear
Groped (verb): to search blindly

23. Bedstead (noun): framework for a bed: supports the bedspring and mattress
Emaciated (adj): wasted; puny; gaunt; sickly
Cleaving (verb): splitting; to separate
“I have watched from there the lightning flashing over my head and cleaving the storm-clouds”
17. Illusory (adj): deceptive; misleading
18. Renounce (verb): to give up formally

24. The Real Reason the Lawyer Left Early
ALLUSION
The Real Reason the Lawyer Left Early

25. “The Gettysburg Address”
Abraham Lincoln delivered this speech on Thursday, November 19, 1863, at the dedication of the Soldier’s National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania - four and a half months after the Union armies defeated those of the Confederacy at the decisive Battle of Gettysburg.
The only confirmed photo of Abraham Lincoln at Gettysburg (circled), taken about noon, just after Lincoln arrived …

26. “The Gettysburg Address”
Mood: the feeling you get as you read a book or watch a movie
Movie: Music creates the mood
Book: Diction (word choice) creates the mood

27. How do you create mood in a piece of writing?
Connotation: the emotional associations a word or words have for the reader
Imagery: the words form a picture in your mind
What images do you see/hear?

28. How do you create mood in a piece of writing?
Connotation: the emotional associations a word or words have for the reader
Highlight the words by using different colors: dedicated, consecrate, devotion

29. How do you create mood in a piece of writing?
Connotation: the emotional associations a word or words have for the reader
Imagery: the words form a picture in your mind
Figurative Language: words mean more than just what they say … simile, metaphor, personification.
What type of figurative language do you see on line 5?

30. How do you create mood in a piece of writing?
Connotation: the emotional associations a word or words have for the reader
Imagery: the words form a picture in your mind
Figurative Language: words mean more than just what they say … simile, metaphor, personification
Sound Effects: words/phrases that appeal to the sense of hearing. Repetition!!!

31. What is the Lincoln’s purpose in delivering “The Gettysburg Address”?

32. The Lottery by Shirley Jackson

33. Questions as you read …
Note the mood at the beginning of the story … how does it change?
Based on inferences, who controls the town?
Why are the townspeople holding the lottery?
Why don’t they stop?
Is the lottery democratic?
What does Mrs. Delacroix’s stone symbolize?

34. THEMES Evil disguised as good Prejudice and Hypocrisy
Minds slipping the bonds of reality

35. DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
How does “The Lottery” prevent the breakdown of society in this community?
What are the roles in this society?
How does this society use “scapegoats”? Are there any examples in our society of using “scapegoats”?