Short Story Test

The Short Story Test has been rescheduled to either Wednesday, 1/7 or Thursday, 1/8.

• The stories that appear on the test are listed in the left side bar.
• Know the "Elements of the Short Story;" you have a notes handout, and we discussed them while analyzing the stories. Things like point of view, the types of point of view, setting, conflict, style, theme, climax, denouement, etc.
  
• See the notes you took on various elements such as foreshadowing, mood, suspense, irony, dramatic irony, verbal irony, situational irony, etc.
• You do need to know who wrote the stories, but you don't need to know the exact year each story was written.
• Look over your study guides! The better you filled them out as we initially completed them, the more helpful they will be when studying. Hold on to these until after the midterm.
  

"Memento Mori"

"Memento Mori"

"Memento Mori" by Jonathan Nolan is the last short story we will read before the test. It's a cool story, but you have to pay attention as you're reading, or you'll be very, very confused. We'll be discussing it in class later this week. You can access the story on the web at http://www.impulsenine.com/homepage/pages/shortstories/memento_mori.htm.

Point of view is an important feature of the style of this story. Remember:

First Person: "I did this..."

Second Person: "You did this..."

Third Person: "He did this..." or "They did this..."

Third Person can be

Omniscient: The narrator knows what all characters are thinking.

Limited: The narrator only knows what one person is thinking.

Dramatic/Objective: The narrator doesn't know what anyone's thinking; all that is known is due to actions, speech, and observations.