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Recognizing Elements of
a Short Story and a Play
Character(s) Setting Plot Themes
POVs Dialogs Stage Directions Acts & Scenes
POVs
First Person
Point of View(s)
Third Person Omniscient
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Third Person Limited
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Dialogs
Through which, the reader or audience
learns what happens from what the characters say
to one another.
Stage Directions
These are notes included in plays to
help readers or stage characters to picture the action.
(setting, lighting, movements, sfx, etc.)
Acts and Scenes
An act is a unit of action in a play
while a scene a unit of action that takes
place in a single time and place.
The family of Dashwood had long been settled in Sussex. Their estate was large, and
their residence was at Norland Park, in the centre of their property, where, for many
generations, they had lived in so respectable a manner as to engage the general good
opinion of their surrounding acquaintance.
(Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen)
Most of us on the boat were accomplished, and were sure we would make good wives.
We knew how to cook and sew. We knew how to serve tea and arrange flowers and sit
quietly on our flat wide feet for hours, saying absolutely nothing of substance at all.
(The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka)
When I try to analyze my own cravings, motives, actions and so forth, I surrender to
a sort of retrospective imagination which feeds the analytic faculty with boundless
alternatives and which causes each visualized route to fork and re-fork without
end in the maddeningly complex prospect of my past.
(Lolita by Vladimir Nabakov)
POVs Dialogs Stage Directions Acts & Scenes
Character(s) Setting Plot Themes
ELEMENTS OF A SHORT STORY AND A PLAY
TOUCH TELL
MECHANICS
1 2 3Touch one
object in the treasure chest
and try to guess what it
is.
Describe the object first, then try to
relate it in your or someone’s
experiences which has something to do with Philippine myths
and legends (superstitions).
In no more than 60 seconds, you should
have already shared a story to the class.
MYTH
Myths are specific accounts of gods or superhuman beings involved in extraordinary events or circumstances in a time that is unspecified but which is understood as existing apart from ordinary human experience.
They are usually of unknown origin and at least partly traditional, that
ostensibly relates actual events and that is especially associated with
religious belief.
LEGEND
A legend is a semi-true story, which has been passed on from person to person and has important meaning or symbolism for the culture in which it originates. It usually includes an element of truth, or is based on historic facts, but with 'mythical qualities'.
Legends usually involve heroic characters or fantastic places and often
encompass the spiritual beliefs of the culture in which they originate.
SUPER-STITION
Superstition is the belief in supernatural causality—that one event causes another without any natural process linking the two events—such as astrology and certain aspects linked to religion, like omens, witchcraft, and prophecies, that contradict natural science.
It is also commonly applied to beliefs and practices surrounding luck,
prophecy, and certain spiritual beings, particularly the belief that future
events can be foretold by specific unrelated prior events.
MYTH LEGEND
SUPERSTITION
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