ELEMENTS OF A SHORT STORY
1. merchant - a buyer and a seller
2. troika - people, object, or places in a grap of 3
3• ruble - current in Russia
4. fortnight - fourteen days, 2 weeks
5. flogged - to be beaten severally with a whip or rod.
short story - 10,000 words
- can be read in one sitting
- conveys a precise message or lessen that can be illustrated in events end experience
ELEMENTS OF A SHORT STORY
SETTING - where and when the stay totes place
place - geographical location
time - historical period, time of day, date, year
weather conditions - consider it only it contributes to the overall story
mood feeling created at the beginning of the story
2. PLOT - sequence of events.
- planned logical series beginning, middle, end
Introduction - characters and settings are reveced
rising action - lead to the climax, where complication and conflicts are found
climax - highest point
falling action- where complications are resolved
Denouement - outcome
3. CONFLICT - connects one event to another, making the plot move
internal conflict - if the struggle of the main character is within himself
external conflict - it the struggle is a force outside the main character
KINDS OF CONFLICTS
man vs self - struggle with himself
man vs man - mc is at odds with someone else, animal, nature
man vs society - mc struggle against the idea, practices of other people
4. CHARACTERS
protagonist - hero
antagonist - villain
5. POINT OF VIEW -angles
First person - told by one of the characters
third person limited - reader gets to see the thoughts of character
third person omniscient - author moves to character to character
6. THEME - central Idea of the story writers thoughts, topic