![]() ![]() Generally, readers pay more attention to the protagonist and the antagonist, who are the principle characters and the whole story is centered on them. ![]() ![]() Readers can learn about a character in various ways, such as through the author’s physical description, through the character’s dialogue, thoughts and confessions (The Five Elements of a Short Story, 2016). There are five elements that comprise the entirety of the content of a short story, including characters, setting, conflict, theme, and plot.Ĭharacters can influence the reader’s understanding of the plot in many ways, because they are the narrators or experiencers of the story. The short story is characterized by possessing five elements, and the author uses a lot of figure of speech and literary techniques to develop and narrate the story, which these attributes are fully presented by three famous writers. There are many kinds of short stories in the history of human literature: anecdotes, fables, tales, legends, etc, that share some similarities in term of literature. The plot of a short story is usually concise and compact, and the explanation of the incidents usually not being overstated or fully developed. This literary form refers to a brief fictional prose narrative that is short in length, usually involving only a few characters who generally lack a development, and revolving around a main event. Mao Dun, a famous Chinese writer, said, ‘a short story mainly captures a typical segment of life to illustrate a problem or a social phenomenon that is much broader and more complex than itself.’ This means that there is a limitation of the length of a short story, that its content cannot take place over a long period of time. ![]()
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