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Today

You are responsible for completing an outline for your short story.

You will turn it in with your short story.

Today and Friday you have time in class to complete that outline.

Outlining a Short Story

I. Exposition (order can vary)

A. Setting

B. Main Character

C. Main Conflict

II. Rising Action (number can vary)

A. Event 1

B. Event 2

C. Event 3

III. Climax

IV. Falling Action (number can vary)

A. Event 1

B. Event 2

C. Event 3

V. Resolution

Examples:

Some Narrative Techniques:

1. Dialogue: conversation happening between two characters to drive the plot forward. Occurs in quotation marks.

(example next slide)

2. Pacing: how fast or slow the author takes the reader through the events of a story. (Will depend on your personal story/preference.)

3. Description: writing that develops a mental image of a setting, character, event, etc.

(example next slide)

Dialogue:

"Your words are a mystery, too," returned the young lady. "Take away the veil from them, at least."

"Elizabeth, I will," said he, "so far as my vow may suffer me. Know, then, this veil is a type and a symbol, and I am bound to wear it ever, both in light and darkness, in solitude and before the gaze of multitudes, and as with strangers, so with my familiar friends. No mortal eye will see it withdrawn. This dismal shade must separate me from the world: even you, Elizabeth, can never come behind it!"

"What grievous affliction hath befallen you," she earnestly inquired, "that you should thus darken your eyes forever?"

"If it be a sign of mourning," replied Mr. Hooper, "I, perhaps, like most other mortals, have sorrows dark enough to be typified by a black veil."

Description:

Swathed about his forehead, and hanging down over his face, so low as to be shaken by his breath, Mr. Hooper had on a black veil. On a nearer view it seemed to consist of two folds of crape, which entirely concealed his features, except the mouth and chin, but probably did not intercept his sight, further than to give a darkened aspect to all living and inanimate things. With this gloomy shade before him, good Mr. Hooper walked onward, at a slow and quiet pace, stooping somewhat, and looking on the ground, as is customary with abstracted men, yet nodding kindly to those of his parishioners who still waited on the meeting-house steps. But so wonder-struck were they that his greeting hardly met with a return.

What are some good qualities of description?

Plot Structure

Let's Practice Finding the Plot Structure/Elements of a Short Story!

Important Parts of a Short Story

Requirements

Typically known as: plot, character, conflict, theme, setting (all things you already know!)

Here is the video again so they will never leave your head.

  • 4 pages, double-spaced, 12-point font, MLA
  • Must include at least THREE elements from the suspenseful stories we have read so far: (i.e. foreshadowing, clear tone/mood, allusion, symbolism, unreliable narrator...)
  • Includes the important parts of a short story (main character, setting, pov, conflict)
  • Plot structure: exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution
  • Dialogue, description, pacing

This Week:

  • This week, we will begin writing our OWN short stories.
  • You will have time in class to outline, write, revise, and review each other's work.

Writing a Short Story

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