LITERATURE QUESTIONS
ELEMENTS OF LITERATURE
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they must be short and concise
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the have to be understood
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the only have to have two main characters
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Broadly speaking, a short story is any work of narrative fiction from 1, 000 to 10, 000 words. Novels, by contrast, tend to be around 50, 000 to 70, 000 words, though of course there are plenty of examples of novels that are longer or shorter than those arbitrary guidelines.
Detailed explanation-2: -The main character of a short story has a need or fear that leads to a major change or climactic event in that person’s life. The protagonist comes to a single understanding or insight. A novel is much more complex with many transformational events that more than one characters can go through.
Detailed explanation-3: -Short stories typically focus on a single plot instead of multiple subplots, as you might see in novels. Some stories follow a traditional narrative arc, with exposition (description) at the beginning, rising action, a climax (peak moment of conflict or action), and a resolution at the end.
Detailed explanation-4: -Short stories usually focus on a single event or crisis, where novels have much more time to explore multiple events with a complex plot. A single event usually occurs in a short time frame, such as a day, although it might be fast tracked across a longer period of time.