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Condensing an entire story into a short outline

Fill in the obvious:

I- Title: “The Dinner Party”II- Author: Mona GardnerIII- TOW: short story

Setting and BackgroundThink about when and where the story takes place. Is the setting around a certain time period or could it take place anytime?

Does it have to take place during a certain type of weather? A certain time of day? A certain amount of hours?

Social Setting who else is involved or around? What is important about the time

or location the cannot be overlooked and is necessary to the story? What about customs of the time or place?

Main Characters

Who are the “Stars” of the story?Protagonists

(the “good guys”)

Antagonists

the “bad” guys or villains

The Plot

Exposition: the set up

This includes the background information we need. The exposition ends at the inciting incident or initial incident.

Initial Incident

This gets the action going for this story. Something happens to start the action.

Conflict (and rising action)

This is the problem of the story. If there is no conflict, there is no story!

Climax

This is the turning point of the story. (This is where Mrs. Bianco would insert the last set of commercials if she were making this story into a TV episode.)

Resolution

How does it all turn out?? How is the problem resolved?

And there you have it!!

Organize it into an outline and voila!

I- Title:II- Author:III- TOW:IV-Setting:

A- Physical:1- Time:2- Place:B- Social:

V- Main characters: