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Basic elements of a short story Part I.

 1. Setting: Answer the questions, Where and when is the story set. Describe physical  and time including social and cultural conditions of the scenario and the characters.

2. Character: Is person and animal or a thing personified. Could be principal or secondary being responsible of the story.

3. Plot: we call plot to the sequence of events that happen in the whole story, finding in it an introduction, a rising action, the climax, a falling action and a resolution.

4. Conflict: It´s a challenge or a problem that gives sense and meaning to the story.

5. Theme: Central argument of the story based on a belief, a moral or ethic lesson, an insight or an idea shown through the story.

6. Point-of-view: way of thinking shared by the author through a character, a narrator or the actions of the characters in the story.

7. Tone: The emotional intention of the story. E.g. happy, funny, sad, depressed. It’s possible to show it through words and grammar choices, imagery, descriptive sentences, symbolism, and so on.

8. Style: The words we choose, the structures we write and the figurative language the author use to describe things in the story, e.g. metaphor, simile, hyperbole.