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Creative Non Fiction Power Point Module 11

This document provides learning objectives and elements for analyzing the short story "Karma" by Khushwant Singh. It discusses distinguishing literary elements, identifying them in the story, and valuing their importance by analyzing themes. It defines elements like plot, characters, theme, setting, conflict, point of view, and tone. Students are asked questions to check their understanding of the story and how it depicts themes like unhappy marriage and gender discrimination through the author's insightful writing.

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Creative Non Fiction Power Point Module 11

This document provides learning objectives and elements for analyzing the short story "Karma" by Khushwant Singh. It discusses distinguishing literary elements, identifying them in the story, and valuing their importance by analyzing themes. It defines elements like plot, characters, theme, setting, conflict, point of view, and tone. Students are asked questions to check their understanding of the story and how it depicts themes like unhappy marriage and gender discrimination through the author's insightful writing.

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Creative Non

Fiction
Learning Objectives

 Knowledge - Distinguish the literary elements


 Skills – Identify the elements in the short story, karma
 Attitude – Value the importance of the literary elements by telling and analyzing
the theme in the text.
Recall:

1. Have you read short stories?


2. What is your favorite short story?
3. Can relate briefly on is it all about?
4. Are familiar with the elements of it?
5. What are the elements of a short story? Can you name them?
I want you to read the story Karma by
Khushwant Singh
Check your understanding

1. Who are the characters of the story?


2. Where was Mohan Lal found for the first time in the story?
3. How was the mirror in the waiting room?
4. I have finished with it. What does “it” refer?
5. Why did Lachmi’s relative not come to her husband’s house?
6. Base on the story, how would you define KARMA?
 What disposition/ mood is evoked in the opening paragraph of the story?
 How did the author present the unexpected turn of the main character’s fate and the inevitable
outcome of his actions and thoughts?
 As such that Singh is called a “brilliant incisive/insightful writer”how did he depict unhappy
married life and gender discrimination? Pick lines from the story to support your answrer.
Plot
- Tells what happens in the story.
Exposition
- The beginning where conflict is introduce
Rising Action
- Action leading to the climax
Pivotal
- Turning point of the story
Denouement
- Falling actions and ending or resolution
Characters

- Refers to the person in a work of fiction and his characteristics.


Theme

- Is the central idea of a literary work that can be termed as implied morals,
insights, or values.
- Underlying truths and realities of life consciously and unconsciously created by
the author and realized by the readers.
Setting

- Pertains to the place, time, mood atmosphere, weather, and social conditions of a
story.
- Authors used sounds and visual images to sets forth the conflict in the story.
Dynamic setting
- Refers to a varied story “world” milieu which includes varied cultural, historical,
geographical, surroundings or society
Static setting
-opposite of dynamic, because it presents a stationary, still or solitary backdrop of the
story.(example is literary model)
Conflict

- Means the composition in a story. Plot is created through the conflict.


- The complications could be in a form of struggle, disagreement, war, verbal
tussles, etc.
 Man vs man
 Man vs nature
 Man vs society
 Man vs himself
Point of view

- Takes the angle from where the story is narrated. It is the firangle from which the
readers view people, events, and details of the story.
Objective point of view
-is an angle where the writer narrates what happens without detailing too much about
the character’s feelings and thinking.
* first person
 Second person
 third person
Tone

- Is an element of the story that evokes varied feelings derived from the voice or
inflections of a character.
- Include word choice grammatical structure, diction, or imagery.
- Can be determined through the authors attitude toward the subject, literary
devices used, and musicality of language.

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