1. ELEMENTS OF A
SHORT STORY

2. SETTING

3. SETTING
Time:
date
time of day

4. SETTING

5. SETTING

6. SETTING

7. SETTING
Location

8. SETTING

9. SETTING
mood

10. SETTING

11. SETTING

12. SETTING

13. SETTING

14. CHARACTER
V S
Protagonist = Hero
Antagonist = opponent

15. CONFLICT

16. CONFLICT
Man vs.
Man:
a person

17. CONFLICT

18. CONFLICT
Man vs.
Man:
nature

19. CONFLICT

20. CONFLICT
Man vs.
Man:
animal

21. CONFLICT

22. CONFLICT
Man vs.
Circumstance

23. CONFLICT

24. CONFLICT
Man vs.
Society:
customs
ideas

25. CONFLICT
Man vs.
Society:
customs
ideas

26. CONFLICT
Man vs.
Society:
customs
ideas

27. CONFLICT

28. CONFLICT
Man vs.
himself
(internal
struggle)

29. CONFLICT

30. POINT OF VIEW

31. POINT OF VIEW
Innocent eye: from a child’s view

32. POINT OF VIEW

33. POINT OF VIEW
Stream of Consciousness: from inside the mind of the protagonist

34. POINT OF VIEW

35. POINT OF VIEW
First Person: “I”

36. POINT OF VIEW

37. POINT OF VIEW
Omniscient: all knowing,
all seeing narrator

38. POINT OF VIEW

39. POINT OF VIEW

40. POINT OF VIEW

41. PLOT
plot is the structure of the story

42. PLOT
plot is the structure of the story

43. PLOT
plot is the structure of the story
Exposition

44. PLOT
plot is the structure of the story
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Exposition

45. PLOT
plot is the structure of the story
Climax
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Exposition

46. PLOT
plot is the structure of the story
Climax
Fa
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Exposition

47. PLOT
plot is the structure of the story
Climax
Fa
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Exposition Resolution

48. PLOT
Finding the plot in Cinderella
A fairy godmother appears and provides Cinderella with clothes, coach and footmen.
Cinderella leaves hurriedly at midnight and loses a slipper.
Cinderella lives unhappily with her stepsisters and their mother. The prince says he will marry the woman whom the slipper fits.
They live happily ever after.
An invitation to the palace ball arrives. Cinderella goes to the ball and dances with the prince.
Cinderella and the prince marry.
The stepsisters prepare for and go to the ball.
The stepsisters try to force their feet into the slipper, but it fits Cinderella.

49. The End