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Short Story Elements Graphic Organizer

This document contains a graphic organizer for analyzing the key elements of a short story, including setting, point of view, plot, characters, conflicts, symbols, irony, and literary devices. The organizer prompts the user to identify these elements and explain their importance and function within the story. It also guides the user in identifying the overall theme.

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Short Story Elements Graphic Organizer

This document contains a graphic organizer for analyzing the key elements of a short story, including setting, point of view, plot, characters, conflicts, symbols, irony, and literary devices. The organizer prompts the user to identify these elements and explain their importance and function within the story. It also guides the user in identifying the overall theme.

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Ronaldo R. Mendoza
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SHORT STORY ELEMENTS GRAPHIC ORGANIZER

Title Author Year Published Literary Period

Setting (time and place):

Why is setting important in this short story?

Is setting part of the conflict?

Point of View:

How does POV function in the short story?

Plot (diagram events of the plot below using the Freytag’s pyramid—exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution)

Describe the protagonist Describe the antagonist:

Motivation: Why does this character struggle? Motivation: Why does he/she/it stand in the way of the protagonist?

What does he/she do about this problem?

Who are the other major characters in the story? In parentheses, indicate if they are flat, round, dynamic, or static.
What are the conflicts in the story? Be sure to include if they are internal and/or external.

What symbols are in the story and what do they represent?

What examples of irony are in the story? Specify the type (verbal, dramatic, situational).

How important is irony to the story? Why?

Describe the author’s use of any of the following elements if applicable:

allusions foreshadowing flashbacks suspense

How important are these elements in the story?

Theme: 1. List several one-word descriptions or short-phrase description of the MAJOR ideas in the story (such as love, honor, guilt, deceit).

2. Choose one or a combination of the words you wrote above and compose a complete sentence that expresses what point you think the author is trying
to make in the story. It is not character specific. This is your theme!

Now, choose two of the literary elements that you think contribute the most to developing theme and explain why:

LITERARY ANALYSIS THESIS STATEMENT:

In the short story “ (title)”__ , written by __(author)______ , the author uses (element) and (element) to develop the theme that (your theme
statement from above).

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