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Short Story
 Our Rules
ABCDE
1. Always participate in the class
2. Be sure to stay focus
3. Choose your comfortable place
4. Don’t forget to smile
5. End our study
 What is Short Story?
• a story with a fully developed
theme but significantly shorter
and less elaborate than a novel

• a work of fictional narrative

prose with a few characters,
limited setting, and a single
major event
 Five Elements of
Short Story

Setting Plot

Character

Theme Conflict
 CINDERELLA
CHARACTERS
CINDERELLA- protagonist, round
STEPMOTHER AND STEP SISTERS- antagonist, static
PRINCE- tritagonist, round
FAIRY GOD MOTHER- trigonist, round

SETTING
Village, castle, house, farm

PLOT
Intro
Rising action
Climax
Falling action resolution
CONFLICT
Man vs. Man
Cinderella was opposed by her step mother and step sisters

Theme
Love, kindness, family
 Character
A character is a person, or
sometimes even an animal, who
takes part in the action of short
story

Example: Romeo, Cinderella

 Types of Character

Protagonist
the character who is clearly
important in a story and often
mentioned in all major events.
 Antagonist
the character who offer opposition
to the principal character.
 Tritagonist
the third most main character of a
narrative, it’s also called as
supporting character.
 Three kinds of character

Individual-round
(pleasing and charming) multi-
faceted, and complex personality
(adventurous, strong, creative, etc.)
 Developing-dynamic
(controlled by moral force), multi-
faceted personality that changes
(from villain to good, from good to
worse.)
 Static-stereotype
(accepted images), has one or two
character and are emphasized in the
story.
 Setting
The setting is the time and place in
which it happens.
 Landscape

Season
Setting
Building

Scenery
 Plot
A plot is a series of events and
character actions relate to the
central conflict
 Five important parts of plot
• Introduction: the part where the
characters and settings are
explained comprehensively.
• Rising action: the part where
scenes eventually become
complicated because of trouble or
conflict in the story.
• Climax: the most exciting part
where the interest of the readers
heightened.
• Falling action: the part that
describes the result of the climax.
• Resolution: the part of the story
where the problems is resolved.
 Conflict
The Conflict is a struggle between
two people or things in a short
story.
 Five common types of conflict
• Man versus self: internal battles
that characters wage within
themselves.
• Man versus society: the characters
firm belief are against norm that
the entire society as a whole
endorse.
• Man versus man: the characters
that opposed by another
character.
• Man versus nature: nature serves
as the obstacle for characters.
• Man versus supernatural: typically
those that are beyond scientific
understanding.
 Theme
The theme is the central idea or
belief in a short story.

Example: Love, friendship, family,

etc.
 Let’s make short Story

• Let’s make your group

• Let’s make a short story for each
group
• Don’t forget to the elements that
we have learned
Let’s do a Story Telling