Elements of Short Story

After months and months of preparing for the big race, the day has finally come. It was a perfect summer day, when Ronald Raptor and his friends Tiffany, Travis, and Barbra strolled up to the Blaze’n Race’n Track. Someone else was walking up too, a ginormous, mean, green, dinosaur named Tyrone the T-rex. Just a glance in his direction makes the hairs on the back of your neck spike up, but he was jealous of Ronald. To sum it up, Ronald wins at life, he has friends , he’s cool, and he beats Tyrone every year. “But, this year would be different” Tyrone thought with a evil smirk on his face, “I have a plan”. Interrupting Tyrone’s mastermind plot was Ronald’s laugh, making him remember how lonely he was, but nevermind that. It was time to start.

The story is written as a second person narrative. This style puts the reader in the position of the main character. We are never told the main character’s name, making it easier for the reader to relate to the character. Writing in the second person also challenges the reader, putting them in the position of the main character.

Short stories can be bland and boring. As you read some of them, you can feel emotion or just read a boring story about how something changed their life, but these three stories are interesting because they develop horror. These short stories use different elements to create horror. “The Tell-Tale Heart,” “A Rose for Emily,”, and “The Lottery” develop horror/gothic elements.

He came in without a word. I was stropping my best razor. And when I recognized him, I started to

The antagonist brings conflict and is also another key character to develop the main story and protagonist. Example: In Eragon, the main antagonist is Galbatorix 5 Conflict - Conflict is the fight between rival forces, usually the protagonist and the antagonist. The conflict of the protagonist against another force drives the story. Without the conflict, nothing would drive the plot of the story.

This one character tells the story from a third-person stand point while having either conversations with other characters or retelling another characters story to show the reader the bigger picture. For example, by using the other characters dialogue as literary devices. Additionally the author can choose to provide character insight for only the narrating

The narrator can go inside the mind of any character, and tell the reader as little or as much as they want. The story “The Most Dangerous Game”, written by Richard Connell, is an example of omniscient point of view. This story begins with Rainsford on a yacht in the Caribbean where he suddenly hears gunshots in the distance. He then attempts to see where the sound came from and falls overboard into the water. He swims toward the sound of the gunshots and eventually gets to shore where he falls asleep. When he awakes, Rainsford finds a puddle of blood and human footprints nearby. He follows the footsteps which lead him to a building that he soon finds out is a house, and he is greeted in the doorway by a large man holding a gun. Then a second man comes to the door explaining his assistant, Ivan, is deaf. The second man presents himself as General Zaroff. He welcomes Rainsford to eat dinner with him, and during dinner Rainsford acquires that Zaroff hunts men on this island. Zaroff invites him to hunt with him, serving as Zaroffs prey, but Rainsford declines the offer. Early the next morning, Rainsford sets off into the jungle and quickly climbs a tree to hide from Zaroff. Rainsford has several more meetings with Zaroff; however, he kills Ivan. Finally, Rainsford drives off the cliff into the Caribbean, and Zaroff is upset to lose his opponent and returns to his house. “Two slight

person narrative of "said". A third person narrative gives the story a very distant perspective,

For example, “The Cask of Amontillado,” by Edgar Allan Poe, is told using first-person. In the introduction of the story, the narrator asserts, “The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge.” (115; par. 1) At the start, readers feel connected towards the narrator because the narrator is a character in the story. This allows readers to analyze the story through a focal character’s perspective, gaining insight to the thoughts and feelings of that character, unlike in third-person narration, the reader constantly has to analyze through the perspective of different

First person narrator were the narrator involve the readers into the narrator imaginary mind seem women creeping all over the place, and at certain point made the readers feel sympathy of this lonely woman that does not have anything else to do that look at the yellow wallpaper all summer long.

The main ideas of this section is that Sam is trying to fix the day she died.

Garcia Marquez combines fantastical elements with realistic issues to create a fascinating story that is worth of reading. While angel is used in advancing the theme of realism, bird mad represents individuals who focus on fantasy and deny what reality has to offer. Garcia manages to use detailed sensory imagery to enhance the vividness of the story. The audience can actually “see” the old man, “feel” him, and even “smell” him. Garcia’s use of imagery also contradicts the reader’s traditional perception of angels. In addition to that, worthy of mentioning is the way Garcia describes the young man. The “Bird man” is highlighted as a man of extreme weakness.

Caitlin suppressed a yawn as she injected the content of her syringe into the IV’s tube of her badly shaking friend, her ears closely listening to her patient’s breathing pattern as she was finishing her task. She looked down with worry, noticing how in the last half hour Barry’s struggle to breath had gotten worse once again. Caitlin was able to stabilize the speedster when the Captain first brought him in with the nasal canal, but the equipment wasn’t doing much help at the moment.

This story is written in limited third person point of view. This means that narrator is not a character in the story. Based on the fact that; the narration is focused on only the

The short story is a concise form of narrative prose that is usually simpler and more direct compared to longer works of fiction such as novels. Therefore, because of their short length, short stories rely on many forms of literary devices to convey the idea of a uniform theme seen throughout the script. This theme is illustrated by using characteristics that are developed throughout the story such as, plot, setting and characters. The three main components are developed throughout the story in order to guide the reader to the underlying theme, which is necessary as a short story lacking a theme also lacks meaning or purpose.