English 11

short stories test notes

• The Necklace
• The Inheritor
• The Possibility of Evil
• Harrison Bergeron
• All the Troubles of the World
• The Roads we Take
• The Verger

***Know your short story vocabulary***

Types of questions posed in your short story responses – (short answer) .
Issues / topics that threads a few stories together (longer answer) .

• Utopia / Dystopia
• Influence of setting - more than time & place
• General short story characteristics
• Literary devices:
  • Repetition
  • Foreshadowing
  • Irony
  • Symbolism / metaphor.
  • 5-way sentences


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