1. Elements of Short Stories
Narratives

2. Setting Place: Geographic location (where)
Time: Year, season, event (when)
Weather Conditions
Social Conditions: daily life (ex. Rich/poor, home/school, city/country)
Mood or atmosphere: What feeling is created at the beginning of the story? Is it bright and cheerful or dark and frightening?

3. Character Protagonist: main character/ hero Antagonist: opposing force
Characterization
Appearance
Personality
How others feel/react to him/her

4. Plot
Climax
Rising Action
Falling Action
Resolution
Exposition

6. Conflict Human vs. Human (physical)
Human vs. Nature(outside human control)
Human vs. Society (ideas, beliefs, customs)
Human vs. Self (psychological)

7. Theme Definition: a unifying or dominant idea, motif, etc. (moral)
Video
Examples:
love is blind,
believe in yourself,
don’t judge a book by its cover