Short Story Notes (Continued)

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Short Story Notes (Continued)

• Setting, Mood, Suspense,
• and Indeterminate Ending

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Setting(I know this is review, but write it down
anyway. Thanks!)

• The time and place in which the events of a
  story, novel, or play occur
• The setting often helps create a(n) mood or
  atmosphere
• Setting is not just physical, however it
  includes customs, ideas, values, and beliefs of a
  particular time

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Mood

• The feeling, atmosphere, or emotional quality
  that an author creates in a literary work
  established through setting and descriptive
  language

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Whats the mood of this painting?

• The Sleeping Gypsy, Henri Rousseau, 1897

Why do you think this? ______________ ____________
____________________
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Whats the mood of this painting?

• The Hungry Lion Throws Itself on the Antelope,
  Henri Rousseau, 1905

Why do you think this? _________________ _________
___________________________
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Suspense

• The growing interest and excitement readers
  experience while awaiting a climax or resolution
  in a work of literature.
• To build suspense, an author may use
  foreshadowing or clues to what will happen next
  as well as a number of other literary devices.

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Suspense

• Think of a suspenseful story that you have seen,
  heard, or read (books, short stories, movies,
  etc).
• What was the story about?
• What made it suspenseful? Give details.
• How did the suspense make you (the audience)
  feel? Explain.

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Foreshadowing

• The authors use of clues that hint at events
  that will occur later in the plot helps build
  suspense and prepare readers for whats to come
• Hint The jungle picture we saw earlier
  foreshadows the setting of the story were about
  to read

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Foreshadowing

• Reread the following passage from the The
  Flowers
• By twelve oclock, her arms laden with sprigs of
  her findings, she was a mile or more from home.
  She had often been as far before, but the
  strangeness of the land made it not as pleasant
  as her usual haunts. It seemed gloomy in the
  little cove in which she found herself. The air
  was damp, the silence close and deep.

Weve talked about how the mood changes in this
passage before, but how is this passage also
foreshadowing what happens next in the story?
Explain.
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Indeterminate Ending

• An ending in which no resolution is reached.