Learn how authors influence readers by using language features and strategies. You'll need a pen or pencil and paper, or a device to record your written answers.

Learn how the strategy of exaggeration works to achieve humorous effects in a short story. You'll need a pen and paper or a device, and the notes you made in lesson 7.

Learn how repetition works to achieve humorous effects in a short story. You'll need a pen and paper, a book or a device, and your notes from lesson 7.

Deepen your understanding of the strategies, including suspense, that are used to achieve humour in a short story. You'll need a pen and paper, or a device, plus your work from lessons 7 and 12.

Deepen your understanding of plot tension and how it is used to achieve humour in a short story. You'll need a pen and paper or a device, and your work from the last lesson.

Learn how emphasis works to achieve humorous effects in a short story. You'll need a pen and paper or device and your notes from lesson 7.

Further explore the narrative element of theme. You'll need pen, paper or a device to record your work.

Identify and examine narrative point of view and how this is used by authors when writing a short story. You'll need a pen and paper or a device to record your work.

Review and deepen your understanding of orientation, complication, resolution, climax, falling action, rising action. You'll need pen, paper or a device, notes from lessons 4, 6, 7, 17, and the story in lesson 16.

Identify and examine setting and how this is used by authors when writing a short story. You'll need a pen and paper or a device to record your work and notes from lesson 18.