Introduction to Short story

What is a SHORT STORY?

What is a SHORT STORY?
What is a SHORT STORY?
What are the COMMON
FEATURES?
What is the ORIGIN of a SHORT
STORY?
 What are the ELEMENTS OF A
SHORT STORY?

Elements of a
Short Story

Point of
Setting Characters Plot Conflict Resolution Theme
View
What are the ELEMENTS OF A
SHORT STORY?
What are the FUNCTIONS of a
SETTING?
To create a mood or atmosphere
To make the action seem more real
To show a reader a different way of
life
To be the source of conflict or struggle
To symbolize an idea
What are the ELEMENTS OF A
SHORT STORY?
PARTS of a PLOT
What are the ELEMENTS OF A
SHORT STORY?
What are the ELEMENTS OF A
SHORT STORY?

Point of view is the writer's way of deciding

who is telling the story to whom.
What are the ELEMENTS OF A
SHORT STORY?
Let us have a short quiz
1. What is a short story?
 2. What are common
features of a short story?
3- 7. What are the elements
of a short story?
8. It is the “where and
when” of the story?
9. These are the protagonist and
antagonists in a short story?
 10. It shows the arrangement of
events and actions within the story?
11- 15. create a diagram that
shows the parts of a plot.
16- 17. What are the two
types of conflict?
18. It is the central, general message, the main
idea, the controlling topic about life or people
the author wants to get across through a
literary work.
19- 20. Please give me two (2) short stories
written by Filipino writers or authors.
How to analyze a short
story?
Review: What are the ELEMENTS
of A SHORT STORY?
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Group yourselves into two or 3 and answer the
questions below:
1. Who are the characters in the story?

2. When and where the story takes place?

3. Who narrates the story? Is it the 1st point of view or the third point of view?

4. What is the central idea or the theme of the story?

5. In your opinion, what are the reasons why people in the Philippines often perceive that agricultural livelihoods belong to a lower social

stratum in the story?

6. In what circumstances does the author show the farmer’s social stratum in the story?

7. In what part of the story that there is a social conflict on the part of the farmers?

8. If you were the daughter or son of a farmer, would you mind to follow your father or your parents livelihood? Explain. Justify your answer.