This document outlines key elements of a short story, including setting, characters, conflict, plot, and theme. It defines setting as the time and location of the story. It describes the types of characters as rounded, flat, dynamic, or static. Conflict can be between humans, nature, society, or within oneself. Plot is the sequence of events, while theme is the central idea or insight of the story.

2. 1. What is your favorite
short story?
2. Why do you like it?
3. Which part that made you
interested or attracted?

3. ELEMENTS OF A
SHORT STORY

5. Setting-the time and
location in which a
story takes place is
called the setting.
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6. • Place- geographical location.
• Time- when is the story taking
place?

7. • Weather conditions- is it sunny, stormy,
rainy, etc.

8. • Social conditions- what is the daily life of the
character’s like? Does the story contain local
colour.
• Mood or atmosphere- what the feeling is created at
the beginning of the story?

9. • Character- is a person, an animal
sometimes even an object that takes part
in the action of a short story or other
literary work.

11. Types of Character
1.Rounded Character- many-sided and
complex personalities that you would
expect of actual human beings.

12. • Flat Character-personalities that are
presented only briefly and not in depth.

13. 3. Dynamic- many sided personalities that
change, for better or worse, by the end of the
story.

14. . Static- this character are often stereotypes, have one
or two characteristics that never that are
emphasized.

15. •Conflict -It is the
opposition of forces
which ties one incident
to another and makes the
plot move.

16. There are two types of conflict:

17. There are four kinds of conflict:
• Human vs. Human (physical)-the
leading character struggles with his
physical strength against other men,
forces of nature, or animals.

18. • Human vs. Nature-the leading character
struggles the forces of nature.

19. • Human vs. Society (social)-the leading
character struggles against ideas,
practices, or customs of other people.

20. • Human vs. Self (psychological)-the
leading character struggles with
himself/herself.

21. •Plot- the plot is how the author
arranges to develop his or her basic
idea. It is the sequence of events in a
story or play.

23. • Theme-in a piece of fiction is its
controlling idea or its central insight.

24. Some simple examples of common themes
from literature, TV, and film are:

26. Evaluation: