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SHORT STORY
UNIT 7 LESSON 1
- short
- simple plot
- few characters
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Elements of a Short Story
CHARACTERS:
The narrator: boy or girl
Brother
Dad
SETTING:
Place: convenience store, living room of house
Time: Afternoon, summer
CONFLICT
Man vs. Nature: Hot weather
Man vs. Machine: A/C out of order
POINT OF VIEW:
First Person - one of the characters is narrating the story
ELEMENTS
PLOT:
Introduction: Main character in convenience store drinking soda to beat the heat
Rising action: Thought of other family members also suffering from the hot weather
Climax: Heat became unbearable because their A/C broke down so the main character thought of buying ice
Falling action: the family got relief when they placed the ice in front of the E/F to cool them down
Denouement: They felt relief and resolved to have the A/C fixed
THEME:
Ingenuity/Creative thinking solves problems
Setting
Characters
Plot
Conflict
Point of View
Theme
- an abstract idea or concept
- a complete statement
- a message or lesson
FROZEN
FORMAL
CONSULTATIVE
COMMUNICATIVE STYLES
CASUAL
INTIMATE
UNIT 7 LESSON 2
According to Martin Joos (1976:156), communicative or speech style means the form of language that the speaker uses which characterized by the degree of formality. He identified the styles in five classes such as frozen style, formal style, consultative style, casual style, and intimate style.
- relationship to the person/s one is talking to
- the purpose of communication
- the situation or context
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VOCABULARY
FORMAL
INFORMAL
COLLOQUIALISM
SLANG
VOCABULARY
IDIOMS
FORMAL
- done in accordance with rules of convention or etiquette; suitable for an official or important situation or occasion.
- traditional; elegant; dignified; conventional
- Formal language is less personal than informal language. It is used when writing for professional or academic purposes like university assignments. Formal language does not use colloquialisms, contractions or first person pronouns such as ‘I’ or ‘We’.
FORMAL
INFORMAL
- marked by the absence of formality or ceremony
- characteristic of or appropriate to ordinary, casual, or familiar use
- simple; natural; easygoing
INFORMAL
Informal language is more casual and spontaneous. It is used when communicating with friends or family either in writing or in conversation. It is used when writing personal emails, text messages and in some business correspondence. The tone of informal language is more personal than formal language.
COLLOQUIALISM
- a word or phrase that is not formal or literary, typically one used in ordinary or familiar conversation.
- the use of ordinary or familiar words or phrases.
- colloquialism refers to the usage of informal or everyday language in literature. Colloquialisms are generally geographic in nature, in that a colloquial expression often belongs to a regional or local dialect. They can be words, phrases, or aphorisms. Many colloquialisms are not literal usages of words, but instead are idiomatic or metaphorical sayings.
Colloquial
An idiom is a phrase, saying or a group of words that has a metaphorical (not literal) meaning, which has become accepted in common usage.
An idiom's symbolic sense is quite different from the literal meaning or definition of the words of which it is made.
Source: theidioms.com
Idioms
Slang is language (words, phrases and usages) of an informal register that members of particular in-groups favor over the common vocabulary of a standard language in order to establish group identity, exclude outsiders, or both.
Examples: LIT; BET; LSS; "OVER;" SHOOK; LODI
Slang
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