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Introduction to Short Stories
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Introduction to Short Stories
Elements of a Short Story
Theme
Conflict
The theme is the central idea or belief in a short story.
The conflict is a struggle between two people or things in a short story. The main character is usually on one side of the central conflict.
On the other side, the main character may struggle against another important character, against the forces of nature, against society, or even against something inside himself or herself (feelings, emotions, illness).
Plot
Setting
A plot is a series of events and character actions that relate to the central conflict.
The setting of a short story is the time and place in which it happens. Authors often use descriptions of landscape, scenery, buildings, seasons or weather to provide a strong sense of setting.
Character
A character is a person, or sometimes even an animal, who takes part in the action of a short story or other literary work.
Short Story
A short story is a short work of fiction. Fiction, as you know, is prose writing about imagined events and characters. Prose writing differs from poetry in that it does not depend on verses, meters or rhymes for its organization and presentation.