Write a short fictional story. It can be anywhere from one to two pages in length. It may NOT be shorter than one page. Break your story into paragraphs where necessary. Complete this
pre-writing page to help you brainstorm before you begin writing the rough draft of your story.
Remember that this can be about anything you like as long as it contains all of the elements of
fiction (refer to the attached notes page).
For each of the following questions, answer with what you are planning to write about. Complete
sentences are not necessary.
Main Character:
Minor Characters:
Setting:
Conflict:
Resolution:
Theme:
***Remember that often times the theme can be understood through the changing of the main
character from the beginning of the story to the end. What did he or she learn, how did he or she
change,
etc

What distinguishes the dialogue of this excerpt most clearly as a work of the postmodern era?

Read this excerpt from leo tolstoy's the death of ivan ilyich her attitude towards him and his diseases is still the same just as the doctor had adopted a certain relation to his patient which he could not abandon, so had she formed one towards him—that he was not doing something he ought to do and was himself to blame, and that she reproached him lovingly for this--and she could not now change that attitude. "you see he doesn't listen to me and doesn't take his medicine at the proper time. and above all he lies in a position that is no doubt bad for him.- with his legs up" she described how he made gerasim hold his legs up the doctor smiled with a contemptuous affability that said"what's to be done? these sick people do have foolish fancles of that kind, but we must forgive them they all rose, said good-night and went away when they had gone it seemed to ivan ilyich that he felt better, the falsity had gone with them. but the pain remained--that same pain and that same fear that made everything monotonously alike, nothing harder and nothing easier. everything was worse again minute followed minute and hour followed hour everything remained the same and there was no cessation. and the inevitable end of it all became more and more terrible based on the excerpt, how is praskovya fedorovna a character foil to ivan ilyich? a. she is kind and takes care of ivan, which is why he feels guilty about how he treated her for most of their married life • b. she is vindictive toward ivan while pretending to be worried about him, thus reminding him of how his family has never forgiven him she plays the part of the worried wife without any real feeling, symbolizing the false propriety ivan upheld but now hates c. d. she is young, healthy, and beautiful-everything ivan can never be again and wishes he could return to

In the play "sorry wrong number"which part of the story can you find heightened tension and suspense?