Short Story Elements
This is the story line. It includes an exposition, rising action, falling action and resolution
What is the PLOT
The first name of the protagonist of "The Necklace"
What is Mathilde?
distress or embarrassment at having failed or been humiliated
What is chagrin?
The necklace goes missing.
What is in the rising action?
"All right. I'll give you four hundred francs. But try to get a nice dress."
What is she didn't have a dress for the ball
The people in the story.
Who are the CHARACTERS?
"__________ experienced the horrible life the needy lived." (pg 33)
Who is Mme Loisel?
the quality of being clever, original, and inventive
What is ingenuity?
Mathilde's husband brings home tickets to the ball.
What is in the exposition
"The next day she paid her friend a visit and told her of her predicament." (p30)
What is she did not have any jewelry?
This is the moral or "take-away" from the story
What is the theme?
"She was one of those pretty and charming girls, born, as if by an accident of fate, into a family of clerks." (pg 27)
Who is Mme Loisel?
a feeling of intense pleasure or joy
What is rapture?
Mathilde runs into Madame Foriester 10 years later.
What is in the falling action?
"He threw over her shoulders the wraps he had brought, the modest wraps of common life."
What is when Mathilde did not want to be seen in a coat that symbolized her middle-class status at the ball in front of others.
This is usually found in the exposition. It is the location and time.
What is the SETTING?
Spends his life savings to help pay for the replacement necklace.
Who is M. Loisel, her husband
not sensible or restrained; excessive
What is immoderate?
Mathilde finds out the necklace is fake
What is in the resolution?
"Her husband, already half-undressed, said, 'What's the trouble?'"
What is Mme Loisel lost the necklace
A character that does not change INTERNALLY over the course of the story.
What is a static character
"But her husband exclaimed, '"My, but you're silly! GO see your friend ___________ and ask her to lend you some jewlery.'" (pg 30)
Who is Mme Forestier?
lack of respect; rudeness
What is impertinence?
Mathilde and Loisel finally pay off their debt
What is in the climax?
What is 10 years.