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10 of 24 Proust Questionnaire questions due Friday (feel free to answer more than 10!) These might help you expand your email!

Reminders:

Saki

Freytag’s Pyramid (a.k.a. plot chart/diagram)

Is this how stories actually

develop though?

• Yes and no. The pieces are all correct, but how are you limited as a storyteller if you follow this?

• Many stories begin in the middle of the action at the climax and then work out of sequence.

• Film examples: Forrest Gump, Ratatouille

• Literature: One Hundred Years of Solitude opens : "Many years later, as he faced

the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.“

• Genres such as mystery or suspense or a sci-fi thriller often have more than one plot twist, is there only going to be one twist?

Modified Pyramid

Please take a look at your list and let me know if there is anything you don’t quite

remember or that you’d like me to go over more specifically!

Literary Elements Terms

Irony THREE TYPES OF IRONY

SITUATIONAL IRONY: A discrepancy between the expected result and the actual result. What we expect to happen is not what actually happens • E.g. A marriage counselor gets a divorce • We are as surprised as the characters (we don’t know before they do) VERBAL IRONY: When an individual says one thing but really means another (or, when a character says one thing, but the opposite is true) • Sarcasm is a form of verbal irony • E.g. The Lion King – Simba: “Will I like the surprise…?” Scar: “It’s to die

for.” DRAMATIC IRONY: When the audience/reader knows what is happening before the characters do. Horror movies and soap operas are known for their heavy use of dramatic irony. • All Shakespearean tragedies contain dramatic irony • E.g. In the TRAGEDY of Romeo and Juliet… The Prologue mentions that the

star-crossed lovers will take their own lives. At the end, we know Juliet is not really dead, but Romeo is unaware of this and drinks the poison.

Tone – The author’s attitude

towards the subject.

Mood – The emotions a

selection provokes in a reader; what the reader feels or the overall feeling of the piece.

Tone vs. Mood Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore— While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. “’Tis some visitor,” I muttered, “tapping at my chamber door— Only this and nothing more.” Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December; And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor. Eagerly I wished the morrow;—vainly I had sought to borrow From my books surcease of sorrow—sorrow for the lost Lenore— For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore— Nameless here for evermore.

> Someone might argue that these

lines create a melancholy tone

and a gloomy or somber

mood

Setting – consider the effects a setting can have on a film/text. - It can build tension - It can influence characters - It can create/cause conflict - It can be symbolic

Pixar Shorts: “Partly Cloudy”

What elements of fiction do you notice?

Pixar Shorts: “For the Birds”

Can you find elements of fiction here?

Freytag’s Pyramid

Listen to the brief clips of music. Think about what is

about to happen. How do you know that?

As we read, keep the following elements in mind

Tone/mood Conflict Setting Theme

What is the mood at the beginning of the story? How do you know?

Does the mood change? If so, how, and where do you notice the change?

How would you describe the tone? What details contribute to tone? Consider word choice

There is more than one type of conflict. What are the major conflicts?

Consider why so much detail is given to the setting. What is Saki’s purpose in developing the setting?

What are the major concepts in the story and what is the author saying about those concepts? Where does the author hint at the theme(s)?

Modern stories that compare…

Analyze & Quote

Be prepared to share/teach your findings.

Tone/mood Conflict Setting Theme What is the mood at the

beginning of the story? How do you know?

Does the mood change? If so, how, and where do you notice the change?

Include approx. 7-10 items that hint at the author’s tone or the mood of the story. Provide at least 2 quotes from the text (with line numbers) that support your response

There is more than one type of conflict. What are the major conflicts? Note line numbers where conflicts are revealed. Provide at least 2 quotes from the text (with line numbers) that support your response.

Consider why so much detail is given to the setting. What is Saki’s purpose in developing the setting? Include approx. 7-10 items that indicate/characterize the setting of the story. Provide at least 2 quotes from the text that illustrate how setting contributes to the overall effect of the story.

Include lines that are suggestive of the theme… recall that theme is mostly implied – so where does the author hint at the theme(s)? Consider the feud between the men. What might Saki be suggesting about such feuds? Provide at least 2 quotes from the text that support your response.