Professional Documents
Culture Documents
- Example: “Every
Who
Down in Who-ville
Liked Christmas
a lot...”
What Makes Up Plot?
2. Rising Action “But the Grinch,
- Complications Who lived just North of
that arise when Who-ville,
Did NOT!
the characters
The Grinch hated
take steps to Christmas! The whole
resolve their Christmas season!
conflicts Now, please don't ask
why. No one quite knows
the reason.
What Makes Up Plot?
Example: “And the Grinch, with his
3. Climax: Most grinch-feet ice-cold in the snow,
exciting or Stood puzzling and puzzling: "How
suspenseful moment could it be so?
when something It came without ribbons! It came
without tags!
happens to determine "It came without packages, boxes or
the outcome of the bags!"
conflict. And he puzzled three hours, `till his
puzzler was sore.
Then the Grinch thought of something
he hadn't before!
"Maybe Christmas," he thought,
"doesn't come from a store.
"Maybe Christmas...perhaps...means a
little bit more!"
What Makes Up Plot?
4. Falling Action: Example:
And what happened then...?
The conflict is in Well...in Who-ville they say
the process of That the Grinch's small hear
being resolved or Grew three sizes that day!
“unraveled
What Makes Up Plot?
Resolution: (Denouement) or “Untying the
knot”
When the story’s problem/conflict is resolved and
the story ends
Example:
Endings“He
maywhizzed with
be happy his load through the
or tragic
bright morning light
And he brought back the toys! And the food for the
feast!
And he......HE HIMSELF...!
The Grinch carved the roast beast!”
Freytag’s Pyramid
Gustav Freytag was a Nineteenth Century German novelist
who saw common patterns in the plots of stories and novels
and developed a diagram to analyze them. He diagrammed a
story's plot using a pyramid like the one shown here:
Character: Revealing Human
Nature
Character- A person or
being in a story that
performs the action of
the plot.
Characterization: The
process of revealing the
personality of a
character in a story.
Steps to the Characterization
Process
A writer can reveal a character in the following ways:
1. Letting up hear the character speak
2. Describing how the character looks & dresses
3. Letting us listen to the character’s inner thoughts and
feelings
4. Revealing what other characters in the story think or
say about the character
5. Showing us what the character does – how he or she
acts
“I am getting married”
Tone Example
“The Author To Her Book”
Thou ill-formed offspring of my feeble I washed thy face, but more defects I
brain, saw,
Who after birth did'st by my side remain, And rubbing off a spot, still made a flaw.
Till snatcht from thence by friends, less I stretcht thy joints to make thee even
wise than true, feet,
Who thee abroad exposed to public view, Yet still thou run'st more hobbling than is
Made thee in rags, halting to th' press to meet.
trudge, In better dress to trim thee was my mind,
Where errors were not lessened (all may But nought save home-spun cloth, i' th'
judge). house I find.
At thy return my blushing was not small, In this array, 'mongst vulgars may'st thou
My rambling brat (in print) should roam.
mother call. In critic's hands, beware thou dost not
I cast thee by as one unfit for light, come,
The visage was so irksome in my sight, And take thy way where yet thou art not
Yet being mine own, at length affection known.
would If for thy father askt, say, thou hadst
Thy blemishes amend, if so I could. none;
And for thy mother, she alas is poor,
Which caused her thus to send thee out
of door.
Denotation/Connotation
Denotation: Dictionary
definition of a word
- Example: Mom-Female
individual who gives
birth and physical care to
her offspring.
Connotation: Feelings
people get from hearing or
reading a particular word
- Example: Mom-Hug,
loving, caring, dries tears,
role model
Denotation/Connotation
Dog-
Denotation: Domesticated, 4-legged canine
Connotation: Smelly, fluffy, man’s best friend
playful, loyal, protective
Denotation/Connotation
Fair-
Denotation: Amusement park
which travels; also includes
agricultural exhibits
Connotation: fun, food,
crowded, smelly, carnies