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PLease complete and send me a wikispace message to reevaluate. Short Stories - Literary Devises Title:__Identities

Point of View: Third Person

Protagonist: The man What type of character is the Protagonist? He is the main character Antagonist: The Cop

Describe the setting: (time, place, mood and atmosphere) At the begining it was a nice neighbourhood the houses were all facing the sun. Later on at the end it was a poor neighbourhood with garbage on the floor.

Type of Conflict: Man vs Himself Describe the main conflict: The conflict was the cop makign a decision to shoot or not

Describe the Climax of the Story: When the cop shot his gun.

How does the Protagonist change over the course of the story? He goes from living in his clean nice neighbourhood to a scary and bad neighbourhood.

Describe the relationship between the title and the theme.

How does the main conflict help to illustrate the theme? It illustrates the theme because it shows you can be misjudged for being in the wrong neighbourhood.

How does the climax help to illustrate the theme? The climax was the gunshot and it helped illustrate the theme of going in a unknown neighbourhood and getting lost.

Give examples of each of the following literary terms in the story (use quotes):

Simile: Darkness has quietly been setting like soot

<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';">Metaphor: The smell of burning leaves sitrs the memories of childrens car rides

<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';">Personification:

<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';">Symbol: The mercedez shows the mans rich

<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';">Foreshadowing (give both element)

<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';">Irony: He thought he was safe when he saw the police officer but he ended up getting shot by him.

<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';">Imagery: The houses are squat, as though they have been taller and have, slowly, sunk into the ground.

Completion 3/5 Content 6/10 Effort 3/5 total 12/20

Paragraph In the story identities there are many elements of human nature. Its about a man who lives in a good neighbourhood and wanders into a unfamiliar one. The story also illustrates stereotyping both the man and the cop judge and make assumptions which ends up with somebody getting shot because of misunderstanding, It also showed fear because both men.

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