This document provides an overview of the elements of a short story, including setting, characters, plot, and theme. It defines each element and provides examples. Setting establishes where and when the story takes place. Characters are the people or animals in the story, and their personalities are revealed through descriptions. The plot is the sequence of events, including exposition, rising action, conflict, falling action, and resolution. The theme conveys the central idea or message of the story. Examples are used to illustrate each element and how short stories are structured using these basic building blocks.

1. Hello!
I am Flordeliz T. Rubin

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How are you feeling today?
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3. Rules
1. listen! Listen! Listen!
2. Raise your right hand when asking
questions or to participate.
3. Honesty is the best policy.

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Let’s
Review!

16. 1. What is your favorite
short story?
2. Why did you like it?
3. Which part that made
you interested or get
attracted?
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17. Elements
of a
Short Story
Ms. FLORDELIZ RUBIN

18. Objectives
Elements of a Short Story
• identify the elements of short
story
• express appreciation from
reading short story through
arranging its sequence.
• arrange the sequence of
events from a given short
story.

19. A Short Story is similar to your dish. It needs
the best ingredients for you to enjoy its delectable taste.
Elements of a Short Story
Stories are made up of four
important elements:
1. Setting
2. Characters,
3. Plot, and
4.Theme

20. Setting
Tells the reader where and when
the story takes place.

21. Characters
The people, and in some stories,
the animals that take part in
the story.
The description of the personalities
of the characters in the story
and the way in which an author
reveals their personalities.

22. Characters

23. Two Identifications
of Characters
1. Protagonist –
the hero of the story
2. Antagonist –
the villain in the story
who is always
opposing the
protagonist

24. Theme
Ex.
Themes from ‘The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet’
✓ The main idea of a story.
✓ It is not a moral, lesson, or a rule for
living.
✓ love," "war," "revenge," "betrayal," "patriotism
"motherhood," "forgiveness," "treachery," "rich
versus poor," "appearance versus reality," and
"help from other-worldly powers.“ courage, death
and dying, or friendship.

25. Plot
• The plot is the sequence or
order of events in a story.
• The plot includes

26. PLOT DIAGRAM
Resolution
Exposition
Conflict
Exposition Statement
The part of the plot that tells
how the story begins.
Rising Action
The action in the story
leading up to the conflict.
Conflict
The struggles or problems
between opposing forces.
Falling action
The action in the story after
the conflict is revealed.
Resolution
The part of the plot that reveals
the final outcome.

27. Bibliography
Dinneen, K. Elements of the Short Story. Retrieved Jun.
19, 2003, from Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute:
http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1983/3/83.03.09.x.html
Five Elements of a Story. Retrieved Jun. 19, 2003,
http://www.teachervision.com/lesson-plans/lesson-2277.html
Guevin, D. Short Story Elements. Retrieved Jun. 19, 2003,
http://www.uvm.edu/~dguevin/Elements.html

28. Abstraction
“HEP HEP HURRAY!”
 The teacher will divide the class into two groups.
 Each group will have a time to play the “HEP HEP HURRAY!”
 The member who will make mistake/forgot the right step of “HEP
HEP HURRAY!” will be ask a question.
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29. Abstraction
1. In constructing a short story, what are the elements that
make up a story?
2. What are series of related events that together form a story?
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30. APPLICATION
✓ The teacher will divide the class into two
groups
✓ Each group will be given jumbled
sentences/paragraph and the students will
arrange the right sequence to form a
complete story.
✓ The group that finishes first with the most
accurate output wins the game. 30

31. DIRECTION:
In a ¼ sheet paper, answer the following questions using the
elements of short story from the box
1. Tells the message of the story
2. Tells the time and place where the story happened
3. It is the sequence of events in the story
4. The actors in the story
5. The struggles or problems between opposing forces.
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SETTING PLOT CHARACTER
THEME CONFLICT EXPOSITION

32. Assignment:
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In a ½ sheet of paper using 50-100
words. For you, what is the importance
of applying the elements of short story?
and why?

33. Thanks for listening!
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