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…...English Reviewer (1st qtr)........... Climax Peak of the story (Sumadsad, Leigh Ehriel S.) Falling Action Towards the end, trying to sol...

…...English Reviewer (1st qtr)........... Climax Peak of the story (Sumadsad, Leigh Ehriel S.) Falling Action Towards the end, trying to solve the Elements of a Short Story problem Conditionals The Gift of Magi Resolution Problem is solved The Happy Prince Thank you Ma’am ….….….….….….….….….….….….….…… The Cask of Amontillado ….….….….….….….….….….….….….…… Conditionals Elements of a Short Story Zero Conditional States a facts 1. Setting - Time and place If + Simple Present 2. Characters Ex. 3. Plot - Exposition, rising action, Iron rusts if it gets wet. climax, falling action, and resolution First Conditionals 4. Theme - What the story is all about Possible of likely to happen 5. Conflict - Problem that arises in the If + Simple Present + Will/Won’t and story verb 6. Point of view - who tells the story Ex. If they pass the written exam, they First Person Second Third will not take the oral test. Person Person Second Conditional Impossible things to happen Character is “you” The author If + Simple past + Would + verb the one or the Ex. telling the narrator is Story the one If I joined the contest, I would win. telling the Third Conditional story Unreal past and imaginary Result If + Past Perfect + Would Have + Conflict Past Participle Ex. Internal Conflict External Conflict If I had won the lottery, I would Man vs Self Man vs Man have bought a house by the sea. Man vs Nature Mixed Conditional Man vs Society Present Result or Past Action If + Past perfect, would + verb Plot Past Result of present situation If + Simple past, would have + Past Exposition Introduced to the Participle Characters and Setting Ex. If we Hadn’t lost the client’s order, Raising Action Introduction to the they would be regular customers problem now. ….….….….….….….….….….….….….…… 1 The gift of Magi When Della gets home, she tries to style her Written by William Sydney a.k.a. O. new haircut as best she can. She worries Henry that Jim will be angry and will no longer Magi - The 3 kings who offered gifts think she is pretty. When Jim sees Della has to Jesus cut her hair, he gets a strange look on his Summary: face. Not knowing what it means, Della goes The story begins the day before Christmas to him and quickly explains that she sold with a young woman named Della sitting at her hair to buy him a Christmas present. In home counting her savings. The home she response, Jim hugs her and tells her he lives in with her husband, Jim, is a cheap, loves her no matter what her hair looks like. furnished rental apartment. When they first He then gives her a Christmas present: a moved in Jim was earning more money, but set of jeweled tortoiseshell combs she’d the couple has fallen on hard times and once admired in a shop window. Della loves now live in poverty. Della has been putting the present, but she bursts into tears when money aside after buying groceries for she realizes she is unable to use Jim’s many months. She is sad and anxious thoughtful gift. As Jim comforts her, she because despite her efforts, she has not reassures him her hair will grow back saved enough money. She had been hoping quickly. She then excitedly gives him the to buy Jim something special for Christmas platinum watch chain. Jim laughs and with her savings. Della begins to cry on her reveals he sold his prized watch to pay for couch as she realizes she does not have the combs. The narrator concludes the enough money to buy Jim a Christmas story by praising the couple for their present. selfless gifts of love, calling them even wiser than the three wise magi who brought gifts After she stops crying, Della cleans up her to the baby Jesus on the first Christmas face and looks out the window lost in Eve. thought. She suddenly catches a glimpse of herself in the dingy mirror on the wall and Theme: Sacrifice gets an idea. She lets down her long brown Setting: Christmas Eve hair and looks at it for a little while. Della’s hair, notable for its beauty, is her prized Symbolism and irony possession. She puts on her old coat and Della’s Hair hat and visits a shop that buys and sells Treasure/possession hair. The shopkeeper, Madame Sofronie, Sold to buy a chain for Jim’s watch agrees to cut and buy Della’s hair. Della Jim’s Watch spends the rest of the day going around the Treasure/possession city looking for the perfect gift for Jim. His Sold to buy a comb for Della’s Hair prized possession is a gold pocket watch ….….….….….….….….….….….….….…… that has been passed down through his family. She wants to buy him a nice chain to go with it, something special and rare. The Happy Prince Eventually, she finds the perfect platinum By Oscar Wilde chain. It costs all the money she got from Character: Prince and swallow selling her hair, plus most of her savings. Setting: City in Europe, during winter Della goes home feeling very excited to give Theme: Sacrifice, Generosity Jim his present. 2 Summary: the city, which turn out to be the corpse The Happy Prince of the story’s title and the broken heart. He promises an refers to a statue, made of lead but eternity in Paradise in exchange for the painted all over with gold. The brave sacrifices of the Prince and the statue’s eyes are sapphires, his body Sparrow. is covered in gold leaves, and in the ….….….….….….….….….….….….….…… hilt of the sword he holds is a bright red ruby. The statue stands high above a city, and is admired by Thank you Ma’am those who live there because he looks happy and ‘like an angel’. Written by: Longston Hughes The prince is deeply sorrowful from a high vantage point, he sees the Theme: kindness and compassion poverty, misery, and suffering of the Characters people around him. Mrs. Jones The prince asked the swallow to: Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones Take the ruby from his sword hilt Large woman with a large purse and give it to the poor seamstress, Compassionate and kind struggling to take care of her sick Let Roger in her house and helped child. her Remove a sapphire from his eye Roger and deliver it to a young playwright, Young boy who stole Mrs. Jones who is too cold and hungry to finish purse his play. 14 or 15, frail Take the second sapphire from his ○ Willow-wild: thin and other eye and give it to a match girl, flexible,like a willow tree who is afraid to go home because ○ In tennis shoes and blue she lost the matches she was jeans supposed to sell. Received help from Mrs. Jones Remove the gold leaf from his body ○ Was able to wash his face and distribute it piece by piece to ○ Was able to eat and drink the poor and needy throughout the milk city. Wanted to buy a pair of shoes ○ Pair of blue suede shoes Ultimately, the winter grows too cold and Summary: the Sparrow realizes that death is When a teenage boy, Roger, tries to steal a looming—he confesses his love to the large woman's purse, the woman, Mrs. Happy Prince and the two exchange a kiss. Jones, easily overpowers the scrawny teen, The Sparrow perishes and the Happy lifting him by his shirt. After she notices his Prince’s lead heart cracks. face is dirty and learns that he has no one at home to teach him to keep himself Later, the Mayor and Town Councillors walk presentable, Mrs. Jones drags the boy back by the statue. Disturbed by its shabbiness, to the rooming house where she lives and they decide to have it melted and remade. instructs him to wash his face. Roger Since the lead heart won’t melt, however, it worries she is going to bring him to the gets tossed on a dust-heap with the police, but Mrs. Jones instead takes pity on Sparrow’s body. God asks one of his angels the desperate boy and offers to share her to deliver the two most precious things in 3 dinner. She asks what he wanted the purse danger. As they go deeper, the setting for and Roger admits it was for a pair of becomes darker and more frightening, with blue suede shoes. Mrs. Jones surprises him bones, damp walls, and tight spaces. Finally, by saying he could have asked for the they reach a small crypt, where Montresor money, and surprises him again when she chains Fortunato to the wall. Ignoring confesses that she too once wanted things Fortunato’s cries, Montresor calmly builds a she couldn't afford. While Mrs. Jones cooks, brick wall to trap him alive. Roger knows he could run away, and even take the purse she leaves unattended, but The story is filled with irony, especially in the trust Mrs. Jones shows him makes the name “Fortunato,” which means Roger want to earn her trust. He politely “fortunate” though his fate is anything but. speaks with her about her work over dinner. The themes of pride, revenge, and control Before Roger leaves, Mrs. Jones gives the are central, and Montresor’s cold, careful boy ten dollars to buy the pair of blue actions add to the horror. In the end, suede shoes. He turns to thank her, but can Montresor reveals that his crime was never barely get the words out before she closes discovered, even fifty years later, leaving the door. readers to reflect on his unremorseful mind. ….….….….….….….….….….….….….…… Poe uses strong sensory details and a haunting setting to create tension and fear, In The Cask of Amontillado and the story is celebrated for exploring the dark side of human nature and the By Edgar Allan Poe extremes to which people go to defend their pride. Theme: Revenge, murder, and guilt Summary: Catacomb - an underground cemetery - In The Cask of Amontillado, Poe made up of chambers, corridors, and burial never specifies exactly what vaults Fortunato did to Montresor. Crypt - a chamber (such as a vault) wholly Montresor only mentions suffering or partly underground, a vault under a main “a thousand injuries” and an “insult” floor of a church, or a chamber in a that pushed him to seek revenge. mausoleum. ….….….….….….….….….….….….….…… The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe is a dark story of revenge, pride, and deceit. Montresor, the narrator, describes how he took revenge on his acquaintance, Fortunato, for an insult to his honor. The story starts during a carnival in an Italian city, where Montresor finds Fortunato, who is already drunk. Montresor tricks him with the promise of tasting a rare Amontillado wine, appealing to Fortunato’s pride as a wine expert. Montresor leads Fortunato deep into the catacombs beneath his estate, giving him more wine to keep him unaware of the 4