Short Story Review

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Short Story Review
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Terms to know

• Foreshadowing
• Setting
• Mood
• Tone
• Denotation
• Irony dramatic, situational, verbal
• Metaphors
• Similes

• Symbols
• Plot
• Conflict
• Protagonist
• Antagonist
• Setting
• Theme
• Point of view

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"The Necklace"

• Guy de Maupassant
• Protagonist Madame Loisel
• Antogonist the necklaceSetting late 1800s,
  Paris
• Tone bitter, serious
• Theme Materialistic wants can be the downfall
  of us all.
• Point of view 3rd person limited

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"The Most Dangerous Game"

• Richard Connell
• Protagonist Rainsford
• Antogonist Zaroff
• SettingCaribbean Sea, Ship-Trap Island,
  jungle, Zaroffs manision
• Tone serious, deadly, dangerous
• Theme inhumanity, violence, cruelty of humans
  to animals, etc.
• Point of view 3rd person limited

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"The Scarlet Ibis"

• James Hurst
• Protagonist narrator
• Antagonist narrators pride
• Setting South, World War I, cotton fields, Old
  Woman Swamp, Horseheads Landing, etc.
• Tone death, bittersweet
• Theme Pride can make people do cruel things to
  those they love.
• Point of view First person

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"Poison"

• Roald Dahl
• Protagonist Harry Pope
• Antagonist krait
• Setting India, mid- 1950s
• Tone ironic
• Theme racism
• Point of view first person (Timber Woods)

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"The Sniper"

• Liam OFlaherty
• Protagonist Republican Sniper
• Antagonist Free Stater sniper
• Setting Ireland, civil war
• Tone serious, suspenseful
• Theme War can pit brother against brother.
• Point of view third person limited

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"The Interlopers"

• Saki
• Protagonist Ulrich von Gradwitz
• Antgonist Georg Zynaeym and their feud
• Setting Carpathian Mountains, winter,
  nighttime, border of the two mens land
• Tone respect for the men and contempt toward
  the feud
• Theme A trap you set for someone else might
  lead to your own demise.
• Point of View 3rd person omniscient

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"Full Circle"

• Sue Grafton
• Protagonist Kinsey Millhone
• Antagonist Terry Layton (or the death of
  Caroline Spurrier)
• Setting the scene of the wreck of Caroline
  Spurrier on a California freeway)
• Tone suspense
• Theme What goes around comes around.
• Point of View first person

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"The Cask of Amontillado"

• Edgar Allan Poe
• Protagonist Montressor
• Antagonist Fortunato
• Setting Carnival, Italy, Montresors catacombs
• Tone death and murder, irony
• Theme revenge
• Point of View first person UNRELIABLE
  NARRATOR (may not know the whole truth or may
  purposely to choose to deceive the reader!)

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The Lady, or the Tiger?

• Protagonist Princess
• Antagonist King? tiger or beautiful new bride?
• Setting Middle Ages, coliseum
• Tone irony, suspense
• Theme Difficult decisions vs. Moral decisions
• Point of View third person