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Narrator: voice, tells the story as true fact. Four different kinds: First person Third person Omniscent Dramatic
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First Person
Major or minor character A level of intimacy Involment is developed Manifests biases, prejudices or ignorance. Children are not realiable, innocence, naive.
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Omniscient
All knowing
Third person
Limited Omniscient
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- only knows the mind of one or two characters from the story.
Stream of conciousness
Creation of characters flow of thought by means of images at random to show how the mind works. -()they were all on the stage, ()she was part of the performance after all. How strange shed never thought of it like that before.
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Dramatic
Writer presents his-her work by means of dialogue and descriptions. Telling is replaced by showing.
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Style
The way an author uses language . To achieve effect. Refers to: -imagey, coherence -rhytim,
-diction
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Tone
The authors attitude toward the story. Ironic, formal, informal, comic, serious, satirical, playful, pessimistic, positive, direct, complicated, evasive, antagonist, violent. Tone can change througout the story,
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Theme
A central or dominating idea, abstract concept made concrete. About an issue or subject: poverty. Theme is more developed in some stories. The black cat: perverseness, mental deterioration 5/31/12
Short-short stories
Subgenre, from the very beginning of narrative form, anecdote and fables. Vini,vidi,vinci Fast pace of our lives. Between poetry and fiction. Abbreviated size Unconventional content
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Plot: minimized, focuses in a specific event. Previous events are hinted. Introductory details are reduced or eliminated. Denoument is left unsaid, open,not explicit. Some may be considered plotless. Characters:
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Setting:
Narrative voice:
-approaches the story in a personal way. - the girl not explicitly defined.
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Short short emphasizes only one. Lenght, the unsaid. Lenght, more details. 5/31/12