A short story is a dend fial narrative usually in pro, which s a relatively small number of characters involved in a siion with oheme. In terms of length, it may range from about 500 words to sometimes of 12,000 or 15,000 words, usually manageable at one siing. It is usually pod of the following elements: tting, plot, character, and theme. Setting refers to the particular time and place with other enviroal factors and plot is a of logical events. Character refers to the persoed iory and theme is the tral idea or message that the story veys, or a moral or a statement abstracted from the story. A good story is an aniity in which all the vital elements have interrelations. Each element implies all the other elements, and implies them in motion toward a signifit end.
Teiques in short stories include point of view, symbolism, imagery, style, tone, and irony. Point of view is the angle from which the story is narrated. It be classified into first-person point of view, third-person limited point of view, and omnist point of view. A symbol refers to an object, character, or ihat stands for something el, gests more than its literal meaning. Style is the uniqueness of a writer, in terms of di, rhetorical devices and nteterns. Tone reflects the author’s attitude toward his subject matter: angry, ironic, humorous, etc. Irony always involves trast, a discrepancy between the expected and the actual, between the apparent and the real such trast may appear in many forms. A speaker us irony, for example, when he deliberately says something which he does not mean, but by the tone what he does mean.
A short story is a dend fial narrative usually in pro, which s a relatively small number of characters involved in a siion with oheme. In terms of length, it may range from about 500 words to sometimes of 12,000 or 15,000 words, usually manageable at one siing. It is usually pod of the following elements: tting, plot, character, and theme. Setting refers to the particular time and place with other enviroal factors and plot is a of logical events. Character refers to the persoed iory and theme is the tral idea or message that the story veys, or a moral or a statement abstracted from the story. A good story is an aniity in which all the vital elements have interrelations. Each element implies all the other elements, and implies them in motion toward a signifit end.