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1. What makes short story different from novel? (Compare them) (20 p).
2. What is conflict in a short story? What kinds of conflict are there? (20 p).
3. Discuss different points of view in a short story. What kinds of points of view are there? Give some examples (three lines are enough) from some texts of short stories for each points of view. (20 p).
4. Mention about the elements of a setting in a short story. (20 p).
5. What is a symbol in a short story? (Discuss symbol in a short story.) (20 p).

 

1.     Short stories are, as understood, rather short. They are like written form of told stories. They are about one or two pages long. However, novels are longer more than 100 pages and elements such setting, characters, points of views are interwoven.

2.     Conflict is tension or struggling in the story. In other words, it is a problem for story to walk around. We can say there are four types of conflict.:
Person against self (internal conflict),
Person against person (protagonist versus antagonist),
Person against society (against social beliefs),
Person against nature (threatened by nature).

3.     Point of view is the camera eye of the story, narrator’s position. There are three angles in telling story: first person, third person omniscient, third person limited. First person story telling is like hiring someone in the story to tell the story. The character speaks in place of the writer. However, third person omniscient story is like telling the story from the eye of God- knowing everything and giving details from more perspective. Dwight uses pronouns such as he, she, and they. In third person limited, narrator uses again pronounce such as he, she, and they. However, the experience is limited to specific character. The narrator does not have access all the points.  

·       First person point of view

“Call me Ishmael. Some years ago—never mind how long precisely—having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world.”

—Moby Dick by Herman Melville 

·       Third person omniscient 

“Do you want to eat? If you do, then you need to get cilantro instead of acting like a lazy pig,” Tina said, thinking, I can’t believe I married this jerk. At least back then he had a six pack, not this hairy potbelly.

·       Third person limited

 

“He couldn’t know that at this very moment, people meeting in secret all over the country were holding up their glasses and saying in hushed voices: “To Harry Potter—the boy who lived!”

—Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling

 

4.     There are six elements for a short story: theme, setting, characters, point of view, characterization, pilot. Theme is the generalization for the main idea of literal work. Setting is time and place this story is set in. Characters are actors in the story. Point of you is how the writer expresses the story. It can be first person or third person; omniscient or limited. Characterization is writing details or descriptions about characters. Pilot sequence means event order in a story.  The pilot diagram consists of exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution. We can put conflict in the middle of this diagram because all event goes round it.

5.     Symbol in short story is a technique that is carried out by using an object for evoking/referring to other object or emotions. For example, by using gravestone writer may want to remind death or by rose, he may want to depict love. In “Masque of the Red Death” by Edgar Allan Poe, The Red Death represents death in general. The clock symbolizes the approach of death, Prince Prospero’s name, symbolizing financial prosperity.