PPT-Elements of the Short Story

Plot Diagram 1 2 3 4 5 6 Plot Plot is the sequence of incidents or events of which a story is composed Most short stories follow a similar line of plot development Although sometimes an author may not follow the elements in the order given these elements are always found somewhere in the story. “A story is only as strong as the voices telling it… The only voice a story never needs is the author’s . Characters need to speak for themselves in their own distinct voices… Particularly in a short story, every word they speak needs to sounds like the speaker and move the story along.”. Presenter. John Hope. Multiple Short Story Winner…. Royal Palm Literary Awards. CrossTIME. Science Fiction/Fantasy Awards. Ron L Hubbard Writers of the Future Award. Short Story Writing. Short Story Overview. …written and in the form of video.. Short, Short, Fiction. There is a genre of short story called “Flash Fiction”, or “micro-Fiction”. In the far east they are referred to as “Smoke Log Stories”. You may have heard these stories being called “Post Card Stories”.. The Plot Diagram. The plot diagram is a tool that is commonly used to place a story into the order in which it is presented.. The beginning of the plot diagram includes what is know as the exposition. In the exposition, or the introduction, the reader is introduced to characters in the story, the setting of the story, as well as the overall idea of the characters’ problems in the story.. Outline. The classic short story. Modernist approaches to short fiction. The context for short fiction in modernism. Katherine Mansfield. D. efinitions. E.M. Forster, . Aspects of the Novel. :. [Story] is immensely old – it goes back to Neolithic times, perhaps to Palaeolithic... The primitive audience was an audience of shock-heads, gaping round the campfire, fatigued with contending against the mammoth or woolly rhinoceros, and only kept awake by suspense. The [storyteller] droned on, and as soon as the audience guessed what happened next they either fell asleep or killed him.” . Story Elements . Review. Protagonist. : The story revolves around this character, and he or she is facing a conflict.. Antagonist. : The person or thing getting in the protagonist’s way of “winning” the conflict.. PROOF ONE:. One of the main characters are named . Fortunado. . In the end, this character dies.. PROOF TWO:. Montressor. jokes that he is a mason when . Fortunado. asks for a sign, and . Monstressor. Work on article of the week!! . Literary Elements Chart: . Literary Elements: . How to Tell…. Battle Royal. Characterization: . -Direct. -Indirect. -------------------------. -Static. -Dynamic. Direct: “…great brother she had, how together, the guy was, a number one pal and comrade. A real soldier’s soldier, Rat says” (1).. La gamme de thé MORPHEE vise toute générations recherchant le sommeil paisible tant désiré et non procuré par tout types de médicaments. Essentiellement composé de feuille de morphine, ce thé vous assurera d’un rétablissement digne d’un voyage sur . Short Stories. Novel: contains story elements including protagonist, conflict, obstacles, resolution. Contains subplots and several central events. Short Story: 1,000 – 20,000 words. Contains story elements but plot is mostly building up to one central event; no subplots. Short Stories. A short story is a brief form of prose fiction with characters, a setting, and a plot. . It resembles longer forms of fiction in exploring an insight into life. . Literary Elements. Plot. 1553303 English Prose. Aj Nareema Sangwiman, Ph.D. Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. Nakhon Pathom Rajabhat University. Scope of unit. Literary terms and useful vocabulary. Definitions . and history of English and American . Setting. Plot. Conflict. Character . Point of View. Theme. E. lements . of a short story. Setting: . The . time and location in which a story takes place. is called the Setting. For some stories the setting is very important, while for others it is not. There are several aspects of a story. Assist.Prof. . . Asmaa.Mukaram. . Saeed . Ernest Hemingway – ‘Cat in the Rain. . Cat in the Rain" is a short story by American author Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), first published by Richard Hadley of .