Short-Story Craft: Tropes, Flashbacks, and Shifts (Grade 8)
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Short-Story Craft: Tropes, Flashbacks, and Shifts (Grade 8)
Short-story craft for Grade 8: read a made-up story of a flood, name the flashback, the detail that foreshadows, the shift in perspective, the wise mentor trope and what the prophecy makes readers expect, how fragments set the pace, how the plot is compressed, a simile, and a symbol, then explain what the flashback adds. With an answer key.
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- About 20 minutes
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Tell a narrator who shares one character’s thoughts (third person limited) from one who knows everything (omniscient), a subjective narrator from an objective one, and first person from third; recognize foreshadowing, flashback and symbolism; and tell verbal, situational and dramatic irony apart.
Reviewed by Mr. Michael Sullivan, Teacher. How we check worksheets
How to use this sheet
- Have the student underline the pronouns in the passage first: I and we, you, or he, she and they.
- For each answer, have the student give a quote that shows it.
- Ask what the reader knows that a character does not, for questions about irony and point of view.
Common mistakes
- Calling a story first person because it has dialogue with "I". Look at the narration, outside the quotation marks.
- Mixing up third person limited and omniscient. Omniscient narration shows what several characters think.
- Calling any surprise irony. Irony is a gap between what is expected and what happens or is meant.
