PPT-Elements of a Short Story

Ms Eckert Genre A genre is a literary style or category Ex mystery horror romance historical fiction fantasy novel short story A short story is a work of fiction that is shorter than a novel typically can be read in one sitting 30 minutes to 2 hours. “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. http://inktank.fi/10-greatest-short-story-writers-21st-century/. Elements of a Short Story. Character. Setting. Plot. Conflict. Theme. Narrative Point of View (Perspective). CHARACTER. Characters are the people, animals or imaginary creatures that are presented in a story. …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”.. 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.. OBJECTIVES. Identify elements of a short story. Define elements of a short story. Demonstrate mastery of short story elements. . OVERVIEW. Short stories often contain structural and character elements that should be familiar to you. . 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).. 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. IDefine Unfamiliar WordsElicit Literal and Inferential InformationAnalyze IllustrationsDiscuss illustrations to reinforce new word learning and narrative elements eg characters settingwwwiowareadingre 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. DEFINITION. Short, brief. Fictional. Prose. Narrative, story. CHARACTERISTICS. Few. characters. Single. effect. often moral. theme. didactic. instructive. CHARACTERISTICS. Dictates of the . FORM:. Setting.