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ELEMENT OF A SHORT STORY

PLOT CHARACTER SETTING POINT OF VIEW

STYLE TONE STRUCTURE AND TECHNIQUE

PLOT

Plot is the series or the authors arrangement of the events in a story. The parts of plot is:
Climax is the part of plot which is turning point of the story.

Raising action is the part when the problems is begining

Falling action is the result of the climax.

Exposition is introduce all of the main characters in the story

Resolution is the final confrontation between the protagononist, where one or the other decisively wins.

CHARACTERS, CHARACTERIZATION AND METHODS OFCHARACTER POTRAYAL

Character is the resprentation of person in literary works.There are two types of character :

Simple character
Character Complex character

Characterization is the way of process on conveying information of the character. The are two way characterization :

Direct
characterization

Indirect

METHOD
Methods of Character portrayal, the author must choose not only what kind of characters will be present, but also by what methods author present the characters. There are five methods, those are:

Methods of Character portrayal

Discursive method. This method the author simply tells us about his characters

Dramatic method. This method the author allows his characters to reveal themselves to us through their own words and actions.

Chracters on the other character. This method the device of having one character in a literary work talks about another

Contextual method. In this method, the device of having one character is by the verbal context that surrounds the chracter

Mixing methods. They are combination of some methods

SETTING

Setting is the place and time where and when the story takes place. There are two types of setting :

Neutral setting Little more than a reflection about the truth that the things have to happen

Spiritual setting The physical setting becomes more spesific and more vividy rendered.

POINT OF VIEW
Describes from which persons perspective the story is perceived.
Three types of point of view
Two types of narrator

First person point of view The narrator reveals to the plot by referring to this view point character as I or We

Limited narrator In this case the narrator doesnt know everything in the story.
Omniscient narrator In this case the narrator knows everything in the story

Second persons point of view In which the narrator refers to one of the character as You Third person point of view Each and every character is referred to by the narrator as He, She, It or they.

STYLE

Style is a writers characteristic and the way of using language.Types of Denotation style: The author used the
real meaning

Diction The authors word choices into his or her story.

Connotation The author used figurative language

Imagery Imagery is some words that give you certain imagine.

Literal image Involves no necessary change of meaning of word.

Recurrent image A number of repetition of the same image

Simple sentence
Syntax The may in which the writter construct his sentence

Compound sentence

complex sentence

TONE

A quality of style that reveals the attitude of the author toward his subject and his reader. Some types of tone:

Understatement

The author threats his subject less seriously than the most writers would.

Irony

A discrepancy between what is stated and what is suggested.

An exaggeration used for rhetorical effect. A presentation of a fair and accurate picture of certain things as they are. A greater emotional burden that it can comfortably bear. The authors failure to give due emotional weight to his material.

hyperbole
The middle style

Sentimentality

Inhibition

STRUCTURE AND TECHNIQUE

Description
The direct presentation of qualities of a person, place or things

Dialogue Narrative
Ways of telling story The actual words of character speaking to one another.

Panoramic technique Focus with detail

description.

Scenic technique The presentation moment by moment.

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