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Saki
Freytag’s Pyramid
(a.k.a. plot chart/diagram)
Is this how stories actually
develop though?
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Yes and no. The pieces are all correct, but how are you limited as
a storyteller if you follow this?
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Many stories begin in the middle of the action at the climax and
then work out of sequence.
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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
Literary Elements Terms
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!
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
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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 vs. Mood
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore—
Tone – The author’s attitude
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
towards the subject.
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
Mood – The emotions a
“’Tis some visitor,” I muttered, “tapping at my chamber door—
selection provokes in a reader;
what the reader feels or the
overall feeling of the piece.
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
> Someone might argue that these
lines create a melancholy tone
and a gloomy or somber
mood
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.
 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
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Conflict
What is the mood at There is more than one
the beginning of the type of conflict. What are
story? How do you
the major conflicts?
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
Setting
Consider why so much
detail is given to the
setting. What is Saki’s
purpose in developing
the setting?
Theme
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
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Tone/mood
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?
Conflict
Setting
Theme
There is more than one type of
conflict. What are the major
conflicts? Note line numbers where
conflicts are revealed.
Consider why so much detail is
given to the setting. What is
Saki’s purpose in developing
the setting? Include approx. 710 items that
indicate/characterize the
setting 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?
Include approx. 7-10 items that
Provide at least 2 quotes from
hint at the author’s tone or the
the text (with line numbers) that
mood of the story. Provide at
support your response.
least 2 quotes from the text (with
line numbers) that support your
response
Provide at least 2 quotes from
the text that illustrate how
Provide at least 2 quotes
setting contributes to the
from the text that support
overall effect of the story.
your response.
Be prepared to share/teach your findings.