1. 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!

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. Plot Diagram