A short story is a short work of fiction. Fiction, as you know, is prose writing about imagined events and characters. Prose writing differs from poetry in that it does not depend on verses, meters or rhymes for its organization and presentation.
Novels are another example of fictional prose and are much longer than short stories. Some short stories, however, can be quite long. If a a short story is a long one, say fifty to one hundred pages, we call it a novella.
American literature contains some of the world's best examples of the short story. Readers around the world enjoy the finely crafted stories of American writers such as O. Henry, Stephen Crane, Jack London, Mark Twain and Edgar Allen Poe.
What makes these authors such remarkable short story writers? They are true masters at combining the five key elements that go into every great short story: character, setting, conflict, plot and theme.
The ELLSA web-site uses one of these five key elements as the focus of each of the five on-line lessons in the Classics of American Literature section. In each lesson, you will explore a single American short story from the USIA Ladder Series and discover how the author uses a certain element.
The definitions on the right are repeated on the first page of each short story lesson.
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<span>1. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea = <u>Jules Verne</u>. (this French writer wrote this revolutionary 'sci-fi' novel back in 1870)
2. the resolving of the action = <u>denouement</u>. (it is a French word meaning a conclusion, something that explains everything in the end)
3. an extreme, unbelievable character = <u>caricature</u>. (often writers exaggerate a lot when they describe certain characters, usually to mock some of their flaws)
4. based on determinism = <u>naturalism</u>. (this literary era was all about determinism - meaning that we are not the rulers over our own lives, but rather that everything has already been determined for us, whether we like it or not)
5. a story or account = <u>narrative </u>(it is a piece of literature you write about something)
6. Canterbury Tales = <u>Geoffrey Chaucer</u> (a collection of 24 stories written somewhere in the 14th century)
7. War and Peace = <u>Leo Tolstoy </u>(a famous Russian author who wrote this lengthy novel in 1869 and is considered to be his masterpiece)
8. example of a novel of incidence = <u>Robinson Crusoe</u> (Crusoe is incidentally left alone on an island)
9. James Boswell = <u>Life of Johnson</u> (a biography about Dr. Samuel Johnson's life)</span>