Elements of a short story

ELEMENTS OF A SHORT STORY

SETTING

SETTING Time: date time of day

SETTING

SETTING Location

SETTING

SETTING mood

SETTING

CHARACTER V S Protagonist = Hero Antagonist = opponent

CONFLICT

CONFLICT Man vs. Man: a person

CONFLICT

CONFLICT Man vs. Man: nature

CONFLICT

CONFLICT Man vs. Man: animal

CONFLICT

CONFLICT Man vs. Circumstance

CONFLICT

CONFLICT Man vs. Society: customs ideas

CONFLICT

CONFLICT Man vs. himself (internal struggle)

CONFLICT

POINT OF VIEW

POINT OF VIEW Innocent eye: from a child’s view

POINT OF VIEW

POINT OF VIEW Stream of Consciousness: from inside the mind of the protagonist

POINT OF VIEW

POINT OF VIEW First Person: “I”

POINT OF VIEW

POINT OF VIEW Omniscient: all knowing, all seeing narrator

POINT OF VIEW

PLOT plot is the structure of the story

PLOT plot is the structure of the story Exposition

PLOT plot is the structure of the story ti on g Ac i sin R Exposition

PLOT plot is the structure of the story Climax ti on g Ac i sin R Exposition

PLOT plot is the structure of the story Climax Fa ti on lli ng Ac Ac i ng tio R is n Exposition

PLOT plot is the structure of the story Climax Fa ti on lli ng Ac Ac i ng tio R is n Exposition Resolution

PLOT Finding the plot in Cinderella A fairy godmother appears and provides Cinderella with clothes, coach and footmen. Cinderella leaves hurriedly at midnight and loses a slipper. Cinderella lives unhappily with her stepsisters and their mother. The prince says he will marry the woman whom the slipper fits. They live happily ever after. An invitation to the palace ball arrives. Cinderella goes to the ball and dances with the prince. Cinderella and the prince marry. The stepsisters prepare for and go to the ball. The stepsisters try to force their feet into the slipper, but it fits Cinderella.

The End

Elements of a short story

by Rikki Carr on Mar 16, 2010

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