Skills
Short Stories
→ fictional text
– take place on one
– focuses on a single event
– open/sudden ending
– setting: 1-2 characters
– mainly about one person/protagonist/main character
narrative perspective
first-person narrator
– interior monologue
→ first-person narrator presents a train of thoughts or stream of consciousness
– first person as a main character/protagonist
– as an observer
→ the narrator is an observer rather than a major character as he/she can also be a
minor character in the story
– the narrator is the main character of the story and presents the story through his/her
eyes
Summary
first sentence → author, title, text type, main idea/theme of the text
– short paragraphs summing uo the major arguments
Use: – your own words
– present tense
Leave out: -non essential information
– quotations
– own ideas/opinion