This document discusses the key elements and concepts of short stories and novels, including: - Short stories can be read in one sitting while novels require more time to comprehend fully. - The main components of plots, including exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and denouement. - Character archetypes such as protagonists and antagonists, and types of characters like round and flat. - The setting elements of time, location, mood, social conditions, and weather. - Themes which are the central message or moral of a story. - Point of view, which can be first, second, or third person. - Additional literary devices like dialogue, foreshadowing

1. The Cask of Amontillado
by Edgar Allan Poe
(published 1846)
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2. Short stories can be read
in just one sitting while
novels require more time
to be comprehended fully.
Short Stories &
Novels
Prose Genre
Use to tell tales or about series of
events that make up the plot of
the story that is woven around a
theme
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4. It is a relatively brief fictional
narrative in prose.
Short Stories
Action
Unity
Time Place
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5. Climax
Denouement
Rising Action
Exposition
Falling Action
PLOTBeginning of the story.
Story’s events become complicated and the
conflict is revealed.
Turning point of the story.
Events and complication start to
fall into place.
Final outcome of the story.
Internal External
Man vs Self
Man vs Society
Man vs Nature
Man vs Man
Main character receives new information
Main character accepts this information
Main character acts on this information
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6. CHARACTER
A person in a fictional story Qualities of a person
Protagonist Antagonist
Qualities
Center of
the story
Opposition/
enemy of
the main
character
Physical Appearance
Thoughts, feelings,
dreams, and actions
Other characters’
perceptions
Round Flat
Dynamic
Static
Fully
developed
Does not
change
Goes
through
change and
grows
during a
story
One-
dimensional
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7. SETTING
Time and location the story takes place. Some stories show,
some do not.
Place
Mood or atmosphere
Social Condition Weather Condition
Time
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8. THEME
Central message of the story or moral of the story.
Love is blind.
Believe in
yourself.
People are afraid
of change.
Don’t judge the book
by its cover
Anagnorisis
Mimesis Peripeteia
Catharsis
Scenarios
derived from
reality.
Reversal of
fortune. Rich
becomes poor or
vice versa
Recognition.
Ignorance to
knowledge.
Intense
emotions from
the readers or
audience.
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9. POINT OF VIEW
Central message of the story or moral of the story.
First Second Third
The story is told
by the
protagonist.
Pronouns “I”,
“We”, and “me”
are used.
The story is told
by a narrator
who addresses
the readers as
“you”.
Pronouns
“You”, “your”,
and “yours” are
used.
The story is told by a narrator who sees all the
actions. Pronouns “he”, “she”, “his”, “hers”,
“its”, “theirs”, and “it” are used.
Limited Omniscient
Single character’s
eyes
Many character’s
eyes
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10. Special Devices
Realistic Dialogue Foreshadowing
Flashback Suspense
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11. The quiz and activity for this lesson is file named as CW
Short Story and Novel. Check this out.
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