Class Eight

Class Eight

Elements of Fiction:

Now that we have thought about point of view, it is important to understand that most short stories have a PLOT.

Plot: The series of events that make up the story.

Example of a Plot:1) Consider the order of events in the Wizard of Oz. What are they?

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2) These events are related by causes. One event makes another event happen.

We break plots up into EXPOSITION, RISING ACTION, CLIMAX, FALLING ACTION

Expostion: Information that establishes the stories sestting and characters

Rising Action: A series of increasinly more dramamtic incidents

Climax: The moment of greatest conflict in the story

Falling Action: All post-climax parts of the story. They tend to be increasinly less dramataic as the story comes to its conclusions.

What would be the plot of the The Story of an Hour? or A&P?

Now let's talk about The Yellow Wallpaper

Reaction?
Let's talk about the story's Plot: expostion, rising action, climax, falling action

What is the plot strucutre?

Stories also have a SETTING

Setting: The place and location in which a story takes place. It puts the story in a specific historical and cultural conext.

We can figure out what the setting of a story is by paying attention to specific details.

One of the really cool things about setting in a short story is that it tends to reflect the mental state of our point of view character.

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Flannery O'Conner A Good Man is Hard to Find

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