Literary Elements Of A Short Story

The short story “The Man Who Loved Flowers” by Stephen King, is told by a third person omniscient narrator. This is illustrated when the narrator describes the characters as the pronouns ‘he’ and ‘her’ and also since the narrator has access to multiple characters’ thoughts and feelings. For instance in this quote it is clear to see that he uses the pronouns ‘he’ and ‘her’.

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.

Source: CAPPELEN DAMM AS, Oslo 2008 – ''Access to English literature, VG3''. Anthony, Burgess, Mikkelsen & Sørhus. Chapter 1, page 23-24.

What is the point of any piece of great literature? Or rather, what is great literature? Some would say that accomplished literature is a way of exceptionally telling a story. However, what is the point of storytelling? In many cases, stories are told for entertainment. However, most stories have a moral or theme conveying an important message about life or how to live it. This is the point of great literature, to convey this message beautifully. Some pieces of great literature are The Story-Teller, by Saki, Geraldine Moore the Poet, by Toni Cade Bambara, and Enemy Territory, by William Melvin Kelley. To understand the themes of great literature, you must also understand how to analyze it. The content

A narrative is an emphasized story that often tells about a character's experience. Narrative’s use techniques such as literary elements throughout the text. These include, irony, imagery, dialogue, historical significance and symbolism. Authors use these techniques to establish a deeper connection with the reader and heighten the theme. Without this approach, stories would sound like tedious articles.

characters like the narrator, narrator’s wife, and a blind man called Robert. The narrator in

Narrator is the person (perspective) which is chosen by the author to tell the story (literary work, movie, play, verbal account, etc.) to the readers (audiences). Traditionally, the narrator is supposed to be reliable, since he/she/it is the only connection between the readers and the fiction world. But occasionally, authors would use unreliable narrator to be the perspective of their story.

Introduction A short story is “A prose narrative too brief to be published in a separate volume – as novellas and novels frequently are. The short story is usually a focused narrative that presents one or two main characters involved in a single compelling action.” (Kennedy & Gioia, 2013, p. 1493) Short stories have all the dynamic characters, interesting settings, suspenseful plots and conflicts, and the surprising resolutions as full length novels.

The point of view is first person. The narrator, who is the mother, refers to herself I the first person “I.”

-The narrator is an anonymous person detached from the novel. It is told through third person omniscient.

I would say it is a third-person non-obstructive narrator. The reason I believe that the author is third-person is because she refers to Leeland Lee as "he" or "him". The author is omniscient because she knows almost everything that is going on, except for the future. She knows what's happening with the weather, the news and Leeland, and the story revolves around Leeland Lee.

A narrator is crucial in this story because they give the readers vital information that she would most likely not share.

     The short story “Cathedral'; includes three characters. These characters include the narrator, his wife, and her blind friend

The narrator relays a count of events to an audience from a piece of literature. They are an important part to any narrative piece. Without them, there is no one to explain the novel, thus there is no story. Narrators are often a chosen character from the story, describing and telling the story through their own point of view, although, it depends on what the author wants. When authors choose or assign the role of being the narrator to a character, it is a tricky selection. It is important

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.