Name _______________________________________________ Date ______________________ STORY MAP Read the short story Uncle and write notes in each

section:

Setting (place & time) where? When?

characters

Theme (What is the main, or central idea, of the story?)

Beginning

Middle

End

Name:

Class: 11

Date:

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Developing a character: the uncle

What the character looks like (appearance):

What the character says (speech/dialogue):

How the character acts/interacts/behaves:

How the character thinks/feels:

If the uncle was the writer of this short story, how would he talk about the event? . . . . . . . . . .

I. Vocabulary: leading role in paragraph 1 means: 1 important 2 unimportant instinct in paragraph 3 means: 1 Feeling 2 knowledge magnificence in paragraph 5 means: greatness unimportance puzzled in paragraph 5 means: confused made it clear II. Refer to the A Glossary of Short Story and decide: 1. float like a butterfly is a metaphor is a simile is a personification Another example:__________________________________________ 2. my uncle shrank under the weight of grief is a metaphor is a simile is a personification Another example:__________________________________________ 3. The red rose in my hand could barely ho ld its beautiful head up. is a metaphor is a simile is a personification Another example:__________________________________________

Name:

Class: 11

Date:

/2010

STORY TITLE: Fact

Opinion

Name:

Class: 11

Date:

/2010

STORY TITLE: Fact

Opinion

A Glossary of Short Story The Short Story--- Literary Terms: 1. Character Development: the change in a character from the beginning to the conclusion of the story. 2. Characterization: the ways a writer shows what a character is like. The way a character acts, speaks, thinks, and looks characterizes that person. 3. Climax: the turning point of a story. 4. Conflict: a struggle or difference of opinion between characters. Sometimes a character may clash with a force of nature. 5. Dialogue: the exact words that a character says; usually the conversation between characters. 6. Foreshadowing: clues that hint or suggest what will happen later in the story. 7. Inner Conflict: a struggle that takes place in the mind of a character. 8. Main Character: the person the story is mostly about. 9. Mood: the feeling or atmosphere that the writer creates. For example, the mood of a story might be humorous or suspenseful. 10. Motive: the reason behind a characters actions. 11. Narrator: the person who tells the story. Usually, the narrator is the writer or a character in the story. (point of view) 12. Plot: the series of incidents or happenings in a story. The plot is the outline or arrangement of events.
13. Purpose: the reason the author wrote the story. For example, an authors purpose might be to

amuse or entertain, to convince, or to inform. 14. Setting: the time and place of the action in a story; where and when the action takes place. 15. Style: the way in which a writer uses language. The choice and arrangement of words and sentences help to create the writers style. 16. Theme: the main, or central idea, of a story. Figures of speech 1. Imagery: the use of words and phrases in literature to create an image of something 2. Metaphor: a word or phrase used in an imaginative way to describe somebody or something else, in order to show that the two things have the same qualities and to make the description more powerful (e.g. she has a heart of stone) 3. Simile: a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid (e.g. as brave as a lion) 4. Personification: the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form