5 Important Elements of a 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...
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5 Important Elements of a 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.
Novels are another example of fictional
prose and are much longer than short
stories.
Some short stories, however,
can be quite long.
If a a short story is a
long one, say fifty to one hundred pages,
we call it a novella.
American literature contains some of the
world s best examples of the short story.
Readers around the world enjoy the
finely crafted stories of American writers
such as O.
Henry, Stephen Crane, Jack
London, Mark Twain and Edgar Allen
Poe.
What makes these authors such
remarkable short story writers? They are
true masters at combining the five key
elements that go into every great short
story: character, setting, conflict, plot
and theme.
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