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Element of short stories

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Ghina

Short story is tells about a single event or experience, usually fictional (not true), It has 3 act structure, and creates an impression on the reader.

Element of short stories

Characterization

plot

Setting

POV

theme

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Setting

Setting is where your story takes place. Not just the physical location, but the time it’s set in, too. It’s the where and the when of the story. Sometimes you’ll explicitly tell your audience where the action is set. Otherwise, you might just leave small clues that hint at the time and place.

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Characterization

Characters are the people (or animals, or even inanimate objects) who have a role to play in the story. They might be important characters at the very centre of the action. Or they might be smaller characters who only pop up to engage with the main characters. Writers use characters to act and speak the dialogue of their story. Their job is to push the story’s plot forward.

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Plot

Plot is what happens in the story. It’s the content. The meat on the bones. The plot structure includes the entire series of events that unfold at different parts of a story, like the introduction, rising action, conflict, climax, falling action, and resolution tying up all the narrative's loose ends.

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Theme

Your theme is what you want people to take away at the end of the story. Perhaps it’s a moral or something you learn about life. Or just a central idea that you think is vital for the world to know.

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Point of view

The message you want to deliver as. Perspective from which a story is told.

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