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Short Story Style

Short Story Style . Devices authors use to give their writing their personalized stamp. Terms to Know. Style: The choices a writer makes that gives him/her a unique voice.

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Short Story Style

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  1. Short Story Style Devices authors use to give their writing their personalized stamp.

  2. Terms to Know • Style: The choices a writer makes that gives him/her a unique voice. • Topic. What does the writer choose to write about? For example, Poe writes about the strange and unusual. Bradbury writes science fiction. • Word Choice. What kinds of words does the author use? • Sentence Structure. Does the writer use long sentences or short simple sentences? • Figurative language. Does the author use metaphors, similes, personification, hyperbole, etc. • Voice. What is the author’s tone or personality?

  3. Terms to Know • Allusion: References to a historical or literary well known person, place, or thing.

  4. Terms to Know • Point of view: The perspective of the narrative. • First Person: One of the characters tells the story. • Third Person Omniscient: An all-knowing narrator tells the story. • Third Person Objective: An outside narrator tells the story as an observer • Third Person Selective: An outside narrator tells the story, but from one or more of the characters’ view point.

  5. Terms to Know • Symbolism: One thing represents another.

  6. Terms to Know • Foreshadowing: Hints of what is to come

  7. Terms to Know • Flashback: Remembering what has already happened.

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