1. What’s the best short story you’ve read?

5 short stories.

2. Short Story Lit devices…. Your list.

3. How to think and write about short stories-

The lit devices create a tool for us to describe theme and explain meaning.

4. Essays due Tuesday.

5. Essay readers?  Read aloud?

6. HW- reading short stories:  Lottery     Lottery    

 Salvation

Lit terms list for SS-

Foreshadowing: 

Hints within the story that illustrate what will happen

Direct Characterization: 

The author tells you what the character is like.

Indirect Characterization:

Author implies what the character is like through dialogue and other ways.

Conflict:

Internal, within the character…existential crisis.

External, outside forces.

Setting:

Time and place

Plot:

Sequence of events.

Tone: 

Author’s attitude.

Mood:

Reader’s attitude.

Theme:

Message-  what the story means.

Denouement-

Climax, where the plot is solved.

Allusion:

Reference to something else, usually literature.

Symbolism:

Object represents an idea or something else.

Imagery:

Creates a mental picture.