reading and responding to literature

• short story - shorter tthan a novel
• characterstistics of a short story

  1. limited numbers of characters
  2. can be read in one seating
  3. concise
  4. tries to leave behind a single impression
  5. plot is not very complex
  6. distinct climax or crisis
• elements of a short story:

  1. character
  2. seting
  3. plot
  4. conflict
  5. theme
• character - a person, creature, or a thing that the author use
• setting - time and place where the action takes place
• plot - sequence of events that make up the story
• conflict - struggle between opposing forces
• theme - central idea of the story
• plot consists…

  1. exposition - beginning of the story
  2. rising action - main character is in crisis
  3. climax - peak of the story
  4. falling action - story begins to slow down
  5. denouement - known as the resolution
• edgar allan poe - wrote the masque of the red death