Les 2: Sherlock Holmes short story

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 3

Lesson 2

What are we going to do today?

Story mountain

Literary terms

Characters

Reading the short story together

What is a story mountain?

A story mountain is the way a short story is structured.

The basic parts of a short story are:

• Beginning (identify the main character, the problem, and the setting
• The rising action (events that happen to main character)
• Climax (turning point)
• Falling Action (how the character solves his/her problem)

Characters in a story

Characters

• protagonist  = main character (hero)
• antagonist = the villain
• flat = uncomplicated character, does not change throughout the story, and you do not know much about them.
• round = complex character, changes throughout the story.
• stock = stereotypical character (the joker, the dumb character)

Characters

Flat characters are two-dimensional in that they are relatively uncomplicated and do not change throughout the course of a work.

By contrast, round characters are complex and undergo development, sometimes sufficiently to surprise the reader.

Point of view/ narrative

Literary vocabulary

• Point of view --> the perspective the narrator holds

• Theme --> an idea explored throughout the story
  
• Tone / mood --> The attitude of the narrator towards the subject matter of the story. Can be playful, serious, angry, etc.
  

Literary vocabulary

• Foreshadowing           --> ''I have a bad feeling about this'' hinting at a plot development in the future
  
• Metaphor / Similie     --> "That child is a hurricane" or "That child is like a hurricane"
  
• Diction (word choice)  --> style of the author, how they use words and language in general.
  

Before we start reading

Which characters did we discuss in lesson 1?

Would you consider them flat or round characters?

Who is the protagonist/ antagonist?

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