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Short Story Elements

The document discusses the key elements of a short story, including setting, characters, plot, conflict, point of view, and theme. It provides definitions and examples of each element. The document also outlines an activity where students will discuss these elements in small groups using talking chips to ensure all students have an opportunity to contribute. The objectives are for students to define short story and its elements, discuss each element, analyze a short story, and write their own short story.

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Short Story Elements

The document discusses the key elements of a short story, including setting, characters, plot, conflict, point of view, and theme. It provides definitions and examples of each element. The document also outlines an activity where students will discuss these elements in small groups using talking chips to ensure all students have an opportunity to contribute. The objectives are for students to define short story and its elements, discuss each element, analyze a short story, and write their own short story.

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Elements of
Short Story
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Objectives
At the end of the lesson, students are
expected to:
• define short story and its elements’
• discuss each element of short story,
• analyze a short story,
• write one’s own short story.
Activity for the Short Story
Elements
Talking Chips
Intrsuctions: Talking Chips
• Form a group of 5
• If one holds a Talking
Chip, he/she has the
chance to speak for the
group to earn points.
• Members must talk turns
in holding the talking
chip for optimum
partcipation.
What is Short
Story?

A short story is
fictional work of
prose that is
shorter in length
than a novel.
What are the
Elements of
Short Story?
Elements of a Short Story
Setting
Character and
Characterization
Plot
Conflict
Point of View
Theme
Setting tells the
reader where and
when the story takes
place.
The time, place,
condition, mood of
the story.
What is the
Setting of Don
Quixote?

Don Quixote is set during


Cervante's era, the early 1600's, in a
town called La Mancha, located in
central Spain.
Creation of
imaginary people who
appear to be real to
the reader. The
writer gives
information about
Who can tell me
the characters in the characters of
the story. Don Quixote?
a description of
the distinctive
nature or
features of
someone or
What can you say
something.. about Don Quixote?
• Dulcinea of
El Toboso, Others
the ideal
woman Don
Quixote
fancies his
lady love; her
real name is
Aldonza
Lorenzo
Antonia, Alonso
Quijano's loving
niece, a woman under
twenty; she urges
both the priest and the
barber to burn all of
Alonso's books
• Friston the
wicked magician
(El Sabio
Frestón), an
imaginary
character who
Quixote imagines
as the thief of his
books and the
enchanter of the
windmills.
Characters in person:
A. Individual or Round Character:
many sided and complex
personalities
B. Developing or Dynamic
Characters:
many sided personalities
that change, for better or
worse, at the end of the story.
C. Static or Stereotype Characters:
characteristics that never change
till the end
A series of events
through which the
writer reveals what is
happening, to whom,
and why.

Once upon a time, there was


a little girl
5 parts of the plot:
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Rising Action
• 3. Climax
• 4. Falling Action
• 5. Denouement
It is problem in the What is the
story that needs to problem?

be resolved.
The opposition of
forces which ties
one incident to
another and makes
the plot move.
2 Types of Conflict
• A. External conflict –
struggle with a force outside
one’s self
• B. Internal conflict –
struggle within one’s self
Kinds of Conflict
• A. Man vs. Man
• B. Man vs. Circumstances
• C. Man vs. Society
• D. Man vs. Himself
• E. Man vs. Nature
Point of View
• The angle from
which the story is
told.
a. Innocent Eye – the story
is told through the eyes
of a child
b. Stream of Consciousness
– the reader feels as if
they are inside the head
of one character
c. First Person – the story
is told with an “I” point
of view
d. Omniscient – “all-knowing,
all-seeing” point of view
e. Omniscient Limited –
“Third Person” point of view
The story’s main
ideas. The
“message” the
writer intends to
communicate by
telling the story.

What does the author


want to tell us?
Never talk with Strangers
ASSIGNMENT
READ
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