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Plot Structure in Short Stories

Learn about plot elements and teaching plot structure through short stories. Explore different types of plots, plot components, conflict, setting, characters, theme, and point of view, with examples from "Aladdin" and "Shrek." Understand terms like tone, mood, symbolism, foreshadowing, imagery, and diction to enhance your storytelling.

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Plot Structure in Short Stories

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  1. 5 Plot Elements

  2. Teaching Plot Structure Through Short Stories Plot is the literary element that shows the arrangement of events and actions within a story.

  3. Chronological order events told in the time order they actually happened. Flashback-when the character goes back to an event that happened earlier in time. Types of Linear Plots Plots can be told in

  4. Plot Components Climax: the turning point, the most intense moment—either mentally or in action Rising Action: the series of conflicts and crisis in the story that lead to the climax Falling Action: all of the action which follows the climax Exposition: the start of the story where characters and the conflict is introduced. Resolution: the conclusion, the tying together of all of the threads

  5. Plot in Aladdin

  6. Conflict Conflict is the dramatic struggle between two forces in a story. Without conflict, there is no plot.

  7. Interpersonal Conflict Human vs Human Human vs Nature Human vs Society Internal Conflict Human vs Self Types of Conflict

  8. Setting • The time and place of a story’s events.

  9. Characters • The people, animals, or other beings that take part in the stories events/plot. • Protagonist: The main character in a story • Antagonist: A character or force in conflict with the main character

  10. Shrek Characters • Protagonist: Shrek • Antagonist: Lord Farquaad (stands in his way…kills ogres and tries to keep Shrek and Fiona apart. • Some Personality Traits: • Loyal, humorous, selfish, conceited, kind, arrogant. • Personality is revealed through what the character says and does. Often, characters grow and change in a story.

  11. Theme • The message/lesson the story conveys • What are the big ideas? What lesson can be learned? • : Shrek: accepting oneself, true beauty is not external

  12. Point of view: who is telling the story First person: a person inside the story is telling it Major or minor: a main or minor character is telling it Pronouns: I, my, we, us, me are clues for a first person pt. of view told from the character.

  13. Point of view Third person: a person outside of the story is telling it Pronouns: He, she, it, they, them, those are clues for 3rd person since story is from someone else’s perspective. Limited omniscient:we follow around one or two characters knowing what they do and think. It is limited because it is not the thoughts of all characters but one or two. Omniscient:“All knowing” Reader is told what all characters think/feel.

  14. Point of View

  15. Other terms • tone: the author’s attitude toward the work (happy, sad, scary, suspenseful) • mood: the emotional effect created by a work • Edgar Allen Poe’s stories create a scary/intense/feeling in the reader…

  16. Tone Vs. Mood

  17. Symbolism • symbol: something stands for a concept larger than itself • standard or cultural symbols • author-created symbols = Innocence = America/Democracy/Freedom = Peace

  18. More terms • Foreshadowing: hints or clues of what is to come • Imagery: painting pictures with words • Style/Diction: the author’s word choice. • S.E. Hinton uses a lot of slang to make The Outsiders more realistic to teenage talk.

  19. What is foreshadowing?

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