Modern_Literature

Modern Literature The Lost Art of Short Story Telling A short story is, by definition “an invented prose narrative shorter than a novel usually dealing with a few characters and aiming at unity of effect and often concentrating on the creation of mood rather than plot” (Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary). Short stories contain certain elements, which consist of the following: plot, characters, theme and setting. In addition, the Short story is told from a specific point of view. All the elements of a short story are used in a specific way in order to comment on a part of our lives as members in a collective society. In order to have a story there must be a series of circumstances known as a plot. A plot is a causal sequence of events, the "why" for the things that happen in the story. The plot brings the reader into the character's lives and gives the reader a better understanding of the character. A plot's structure is the way in which the story elements are arranged. Writers vary structure depending on the needs of the story. Plot consists of exposition, conflict, complication, climax, and resolution. Short stories always have all the plot elements story, short, characters, view, theme, point, plot, elements, fiction, telling, setting, reader, order, narrator, action, told, objective, main, first, complication, about, way, third, things, structure, stories, specific, society, resolution, piece, person, people, out, omniscient, must