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Understanding the Essential Elements of a Short Story

This comprehensive guide explores the key elements that make up a compelling short story. Discover the importance of setting, which encompasses the time and place, as well as character dynamics, including main and secondary characters. Understand the various types of conflict, from person vs. person to person vs. nature, and learn how plot structure, including exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution, and denouement, contributes to a satisfying narrative. Finally, uncover the significance of theme, which conveys the author's message about life or humanity.

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Understanding the Essential Elements of a Short Story

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  1. Elements of a Short Story Ms. Koepke Creative Writing

  2. Setting • Setting is the TIME and PLACE in which a story occurs.

  3. Characters • Who is involved? • What are their personalities? • How are they connected? • Main characters vs. secondary characters • Dialogue is key!

  4. Conflict • There are 5 types of conflict: • Person vs. person • Person vs. self • Person vs. nature • Person vs. society • Person vs. unknown (ghosts, robots, etc.)

  5. The PLOT • Exposition = Background info • Rising action = Series of events (or struggles) driving the plot forward toward the climax. • Climax = The TURNING POINT of the story • Falling Action = Series of events that work out the conflict • Resolution = The portion of the story that in which the conflict is resolved. It brings the story to a satisfactory and complete end. • Denoument = French for “The unraveling”. It’s the Scooby Doo ending.

  6. Theme • The lesson about life or humanity that the author is trying to get across through the events in the story. • It IS NOT a topic (like love or friendship)

  7. A story MUST include all of the elements!

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