https://padlet.com/lauren_dance132/tgd4g9lvtrf2 Made for final project en-us 2018-10-10 21:27:53 UTC 2025-04-14 15:46:01 UTC hello@padlet.com lauren_dance132 https://padlet.com/lauren_dance132/tgd4g9lvtrf2/wish/291489352 Definition: The message of the story. It is also referred to as the story's lesson about the life or the people in the story. Finally it is known as the fourth element of a short story

Example: In the short story of "Fatty Legs" the theme of this story is: Be proud of who you are and where you come from no matter what anybody says

]]> 2018-10-10 21:34:36 UTC https://padlet.com/lauren_dance132/tgd4g9lvtrf2/wish/291489352 lauren_dance132 https://padlet.com/lauren_dance132/tgd4g9lvtrf2/wish/291489482 Definition: A comparison of two things to each other. 
Example:  In borders the simile is "both men swayed back and forth like two cowhands headed for a bar or a gun fight." 




]]> 2018-10-10 21:35:16 UTC https://padlet.com/lauren_dance132/tgd4g9lvtrf2/wish/291489482 lauren_dance132 https://padlet.com/lauren_dance132/tgd4g9lvtrf2/wish/291489591 Definition: It's a figure of speech applied to an object or action when it is not literally applicable. 
Example: In Fatty Legs the metaphor is about the two nuns the “Raven” and the “Swan”

]]> 2018-10-10 21:35:48 UTC https://padlet.com/lauren_dance132/tgd4g9lvtrf2/wish/291489591 lauren_dance132 https://padlet.com/lauren_dance132/tgd4g9lvtrf2/wish/291489713 Definition: It's a form of figurative language where a non human thing is given human characteristics. 
Example: When the dog ran off to find the others after the man died


]]> 2018-10-10 21:36:18 UTC https://padlet.com/lauren_dance132/tgd4g9lvtrf2/wish/291489713 lauren_dance132 https://padlet.com/lauren_dance132/tgd4g9lvtrf2/wish/291489749 Definition: Using figurative language to represent actions, objects and ideas that appeal to physical senses. (Sight, touch, smell, sound, taste)
Example: in “Two Islands” Greenal is a “peaceful island”

]]> 2018-10-10 21:36:34 UTC https://padlet.com/lauren_dance132/tgd4g9lvtrf2/wish/291489749 lauren_dance132 https://padlet.com/lauren_dance132/tgd4g9lvtrf2/wish/291489842 Definition: The reason behind the characters choices, actions and behavior through the story. 

Example:  Gordon D. Warden wanted to build the bridge which he thought would be " The greatest idea I ever had" because he wanted to connect the two islands together. 

]]> 2018-10-10 21:37:04 UTC https://padlet.com/lauren_dance132/tgd4g9lvtrf2/wish/291489842 lauren_dance132 https://padlet.com/lauren_dance132/tgd4g9lvtrf2/wish/291489883 Definition: When an event occurs that is the opposite of what was expected by the character and or the readers.
Example: In "The Necklace" The women lost what she thought was an expensive necklace; however, it was only an imitation "It was only worth at the very most five hundred francs"

]]> 2018-10-10 21:37:18 UTC https://padlet.com/lauren_dance132/tgd4g9lvtrf2/wish/291489883 lauren_dance132 https://padlet.com/lauren_dance132/tgd4g9lvtrf2/wish/291489937 definition: There are two parts to a full setting physical and emotional. The mood or atmosphere is the emotional setting and the time, place and season create the physical setting. 
Example: The setting for the story To Build A Fire was set in the Klondike in northern Canada]]> 2018-10-10 21:37:36 UTC https://padlet.com/lauren_dance132/tgd4g9lvtrf2/wish/291489937 lauren_dance132 https://padlet.com/lauren_dance132/tgd4g9lvtrf2/wish/291490062 Definition: The plot is are the events, or the series of actions that make up the story. (The story line)
Example: The plot of Fatty legs is about Olemaun Pokiak leaving her village and going to residential to succeed her goal of learning to read; however, residential is not what she expects it to be

]]> 2018-10-10 21:38:23 UTC https://padlet.com/lauren_dance132/tgd4g9lvtrf2/wish/291490062 lauren_dance132 https://padlet.com/lauren_dance132/tgd4g9lvtrf2/wish/291490135 Definition: The point of view is the way the writer chooses to tell the story. There are three point of views first, second and third. First person is when the narrator is referred to as “I” Second is where the protagonist is referred to as “you”and third is can be from omniscient, limited omniscient or objective.
Example: The point of view of "The Chaser" is third person objective because we do not know much about the protagonist, and he is not referred to as "I" he is referred to by his name.

]]> 2018-10-10 21:38:48 UTC https://padlet.com/lauren_dance132/tgd4g9lvtrf2/wish/291490135 lauren_dance132 https://padlet.com/lauren_dance132/tgd4g9lvtrf2/wish/291490186 Definition: A brief or indirect reference to a person, place or thing in a story.
Example: In "Never Stop on the Motorway" A song on the radio called "I will survive" begins playing wile Dianna is driving in her car.

]]> 2018-10-10 21:39:05 UTC https://padlet.com/lauren_dance132/tgd4g9lvtrf2/wish/291490186 lauren_dance132 https://padlet.com/lauren_dance132/tgd4g9lvtrf2/wish/291490241 Definition: The mood is a descriptive words such as: warm, dark peaceful etc. The atmosphere of a short story is the feeling  and the emotion a writer conveys the readers through setting and objects. 
Example: the atmosphere of borders was really intense when the media showed up at the border crossing because we didn't know what was going to happen next. The mood was shown when the boy was talking about how the blankets in the car would keep him and his mom warm during the drive.

]]> 2018-10-10 21:39:18 UTC https://padlet.com/lauren_dance132/tgd4g9lvtrf2/wish/291490241 lauren_dance132 https://padlet.com/lauren_dance132/tgd4g9lvtrf2/wish/291490407 Definition: There are many different types of characters. There are Dynamic, flat, static, round, the Protagonist, antagonist and the stereotypical character. For example a flat character is a minor character that does not change through the story. They may not seem very realistic because so little is known about them. 
Example: A character in "The Necklace" is the husband. He is a flat character because we don't know anything about him other than that he loves his wife dearly and he will do anything for her]]> 2018-10-10 21:40:06 UTC https://padlet.com/lauren_dance132/tgd4g9lvtrf2/wish/291490407 lauren_dance132 https://padlet.com/lauren_dance132/tgd4g9lvtrf2/wish/291490544 Definition: Symbolism in literature can take many forms including: A figure of speech Where an object, person or situation has another meaning than its literary meaning. Or an action of a character that has a deeper meaning or more significant meaning then told.
Example: when the citizens of Greenal made a sign where Graynal used to be it was meant as a warning to the rest of society.]]> 2018-10-10 21:41:03 UTC https://padlet.com/lauren_dance132/tgd4g9lvtrf2/wish/291490544 lauren_dance132 https://padlet.com/lauren_dance132/tgd4g9lvtrf2/wish/291490614 definition: When a character thinks of an event that occurred before the story takes place. Sometimes flashbacks are written as a separate "interrupter" in short stories and novels.
Example: In "Borders" This happens quite often especially when suspense is occurring. A flashback that occurred was when Laetitia's boyfriend brought back "Brochures from Salt Lake City"
  ]]> 2018-10-10 21:41:24 UTC https://padlet.com/lauren_dance132/tgd4g9lvtrf2/wish/291490614 lauren_dance132 https://padlet.com/lauren_dance132/tgd4g9lvtrf2/wish/291490658 Definition: A hint of events to 
come. (The character (s) may not know something will occur)
Example: At the end of "The Chaser" the old man said "Au revoire" instead of goodbye because he knew that Alan would return someday. Which shoes readers that he will return. 

]]> 2018-10-10 21:41:38 UTC https://padlet.com/lauren_dance132/tgd4g9lvtrf2/wish/291490658 lauren_dance132 https://padlet.com/lauren_dance132/tgd4g9lvtrf2/wish/291490692 Definition: Anxiety or apprehension  resulting from an uncertain, undecided, or mysterious situation.   Suspense is when the writer creates excited anticipation of an approaching climax in the reader. 
Example: During "Never Stop On the Motorway" The suspense rises as the car chase goes on through the story.]]> 2018-10-10 21:41:51 UTC https://padlet.com/lauren_dance132/tgd4g9lvtrf2/wish/291490692