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Hkdse Short Stories Powerpoint

The document provides information about short stories including their origins, typical structures, and Franz Kafka's short story "A Little Fable". It discusses how short stories tend to focus on a single incident, plot, setting, small number of characters, and short period of time. It analyzes Kafka's story as being told from the first person perspective of the mouse in the present tense. Finally, it discusses the HKDSE exam questions related to short stories and provides an example question about a youth visiting Shanghai for a sports course.

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Hkdse Short Stories Powerpoint

The document provides information about short stories including their origins, typical structures, and Franz Kafka's short story "A Little Fable". It discusses how short stories tend to focus on a single incident, plot, setting, small number of characters, and short period of time. It analyzes Kafka's story as being told from the first person perspective of the mouse in the present tense. Finally, it discusses the HKDSE exam questions related to short stories and provides an example question about a youth visiting Shanghai for a sports course.

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Short stories

ANALYSIS AND BASIC WRITING

Franz Kafka A Little Fable


"Alas," said the mouse, "the whole world is growing smaller every day. At the beginning it was so big that I was afraid, I kept running and running, and I was glad when I saw walls far away to the right and left, but these long walls have narrowed so quickly that I am in the last chamber already, and there in the corner stands the trap that I must run into." "You only need to change your direction," said the cat, and ate it up.

Facts about short stories


Short stories have their origin in oral story-telling

traditions. A short story can be very short, 1-2 pages, but it can also be longer; 150 pages. Short stories tend to be less advanced than novels because they are shorter than novels.

Facts about short stories


Crime

Humorous
Romance Sci-fi

Fiction
Non fiction Comic etc.

What type of story do you think Franz Kafkas A

Little Fable is?

Facts about short stories


Usually a short story focuses on:

1.
2. 3.

4.
5.

one incident a mouses death has a single plot a mouse being chased / running a single setting a room or closed space a small number of characters a cat and a mouse and covers a short period of time few minutes / hours

Facts about short stories - Structure


Beginning

Conflict
Climax Resolution Does this remind you of another structure?

Three-paragraph essay structure

1.

Introduction

2. Body
3. Conclusion

Short story vs. Three-paragraph essay


Beginning - Introduction Conflict

- Body
Climax

Resolution - Conclusion

Beginning Introduction
"Alas," said the mouse, "the whole world is

growing smaller every day. At the beginning it was so big that I was afraid,

Conflict Body Paragraph 1


I kept running and running, and I was glad

when I saw walls far away to the right and left, but these long walls have narrowed so quickly that I am in the last chamber already,

Climax Body Paragraph 2 ( + 3 )


and there in the corner stands the trap that I

must run into."

Resolution Conclusion
"You only need to change your direction,"

said the cat, and ate it up.

Three-paragraph essay structure

1.

Introduction

"Alas," said the mouse, "the whole world is growing smaller every day. At the beginning it was so big that I was afraid, I kept running and running, and I was glad when I saw walls far away to the right and left, but these long walls have narrowed so quickly that I am in the last chamber already, and there in the corner stands the trap that I must run into." "You only need to change your direction," said the cat, and ate it up.

2. Body

3. Conclusion

Narration
In short stories, same as in normal stories, there are

many types of voices. Who is speaking in A Little Fable? First-person, third-person or one who sees everything?

Who is telling the story and in what tense?


"Alas," said the mouse, "the whole world is growing smaller every day. At the beginning it was so big that I was afraid, I kept running and running, and I was glad when I saw walls far away to the right and left, but these long walls have narrowed so quickly that I am in the last chamber already, and there in the corner stands the trap that I must run into."

"You only need to change your direction," said the cat, and ate it up.

Short story analysis


Science-fiction

What is it?
What do you know about it?

HKDSE Exam questions are related to


retelling a legend/traditional story

retelling a story to suit modern Hong Kong


news briefs favorite television series (e.g. Prison Break, 24, X-files) inspiration from a title (look at lists of books and films) personal experience a desire to create a particular style or mood a desire to teach a certain lesson an interest in a special theme (e.g. peer pressure, dating)

(From Resources to Suggested Schemes of Work for the Elective Part of the Three-year Senior Secondary English Language Curriculum (Secondary 4-6) www.edb.gov.hk)

HKDSE Sample Exam Question


You are going to Shanghai for a three week summer

course to practice your favorite sport with other youths. After several days, you find some time to write on your internet blog about your experiences on the course and about life with other youths on campus. Describe your experiences on the course and of life in Shanghai, and say how they have inspired you in your sport.

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