Introduction to Short Stories
In addition to being short story writers, Anton Chekov and Guy De Maupassant explored what other literary form?
Drama.They were playwrights.
What is the protagonists name in the Virgin soil?
Flo
Who wrote The Snows of Kilimanjaro?
Ernest Hemingway
Who wrote the Dead?
James Joyce
Hedwig
What short story writer and theorist suggested that short stories are defined by their unified form, and ability to be read in one sitting?
Edgar Allan Poe
Who is the author of Virgin Soil?
Mary Chavelita Dunne.
What is the protagonist’s name in The Snows of Kilimanjaro?
Harry
What collection of stories was the Dead a part of?
The Dubliners
Name the artist who sang "You Belong with Me".
Taylor Swift.
What element of the short story structure makes it distinctly different to classic novels?
Lack of formal chapters
What movement was the short story written in?
New Woman movement
What are 2 modernist stylistic features?
Epiphany, stream of consciousness, telescoping, fragmentation, retrospective flashbacks (Any 2).
What is one major theme of the Dead?
Mortality, paralysis, effects of colonialism
If you are a fan of this person, you are a Belieber. Who's the artist?
Justin Bieber.
Writers recognise the effectiveness of the early short story form as they saw it as a combination of structure and techniques from which 2 literary forms?
The structure of an essay with the techniques of folktale.
What does the title of the short story symbolise?
Innocence and fertility.
Who coined the Icerberg Theory and what does it entail?
Hemingway, Show rather than tell through language features (Symbolism, motifs, allusion, imagery.)
Name one social norm that is violated in The Dead.
Lily talking back, Miss Ivors calling him a “West Briton”, his wife having her own internal life, the Lass of Aughrim being sung
Where did World War II begin?
Poland
In 1892 the Australian magazine, Bulletin, published what short story?
Henry Lawson’s “The Drovers Wife”.
What other texts can be related to The Virgin Soil?
The Awakening, A Dolls House
Identify at least 3 themes of The Snows of Kilimajaro.
Life and death, Regret, Memory and legacy, Man’s view of women, Search for redemption.
What does Johnny the horse represent in The Dead?
Paralysis, ritualism without question
This man got famous from WWE. He now is an actor. He played Maui in Moana.
Dwayne "The rock" Johnson