Summary: Reader Short Story

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• 1 Reader short story

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• 1.1 Plot

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• What are the plot types?

  • Linear plot
    
  • Flashbacks
  • Parallel plots
    

• First person perspective

  The narrator speaks in the ''I'' form. You read the thoughts and feelings of the narrator. The narrator is often part of the story.

• What are the types of the third person perspective?

  • Subjective third person perspective
    
  • an omniscient (all-knowing) narrator
    

• Subjective third person perspective

  This narrator tells the story using ''he'' and ''she'', but he focuses on one of the characters. You can only read the thoughts and the feelings of one of the characters.

• An omniscient (all-knowing) narrator

  This narrator speaks using ''he'' and ''she'', but can ''look inside the head'' of every character. You read thoughts and feelings of all the characters.

• What are the five suspenses?

  1. Limit point of view
     
  2. Setting
  3. Style and form
  4. Dramatic irony
     
  5. Cliffhanger

• What are the elements of the plot diagram?

  1. Exposition
     
  2. Inciting incident
  3. Rising action
  4. Climax
  5. Falling action

• 1.2 Character

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• What are the five simple ways to describe characters?

  1. Telling
     
  2. Showing
  3. Thinking
  4. The others (behaviour)
  5. The world outside

• What are the four types of characters?

  1. Flat character
     
  2. Round character
  3. Dynamic character
  4. Static character

• 1.3 Language and Imagery

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• What are the style aspects?

  1. Diction --> the choice and use of words
     
  2. Grammar --> how these words are put together
  3. Rhetorical devices --> to use words in a special way to convey meaning or to persuade