AP Literature and Composition Friday September 21 Aim How is the timeline and nonchronological narrative of A Rose for Emily important to our understanding of plot Objectives Learn ID: 487025
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Literary Element: Plot
AP Literature and CompositionSlide2
Friday, September 21
Aim:
How is the timeline and non-chronological narrative of “A Rose for Emily” important to our understanding of plot
?
Objectives:
Learn
the terminology to refer to specific points in a narrative
Understand how a change in traditional plot structure can affect a reader’s interpretation and analysis
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Do Now: Every story has a beginning, middle, and end. Why do you think Faulkner started the story with Emily’s funeral (essentially, the end)?Slide3
Traditional Plot StructureSlide4
Types of Linear Plot
Stories can be told in:
Chronological Order
Flashback
In media res (in the middle of things) when the story starts in the middle of the action without expositionSlide5
Components of Plot
Exposition: the start of the story, the situation before the action starts
Rising Action: the series of conflicts and crisis in the story that lead to the climax
Climax: the turning point, the most intense moment—either mentally or in action
Falling Action: All of the action that follows the climax
Resolution: the conclusion, the tying together of all the threadsSlide6
Conflict
Conflict is the dramatic struggle between two forces in a story. Without conflict, there is no plot.
Types of conflict:
Human vs. Human
Human vs. Nature
Human vs. Society
Human vs. SelfSlide7
Constructing a Linear Plot
What if Faulkner told the story in a linear, chronological order? What would we be missing?
Let’s construct a timeline to get our facts straightSlide8
What’s missing?
No mystery
or suspense
Faulkner essentially gives us a murder mystery and keeps us guessing until the very last hair
It jumbles up the exposition, rising action, conflict, climax, falling action, and conclusion
You have to disassemble and reassemble the plot in order to gain a full understanding… and then disassemble
it again