ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Flash fiction is a short story with a strict word count, usually no longer than 2, 000 or even 1, 000 words. A piece of flash fiction is a radical concentration of plot, character, setting, and exposition.

Detailed explanation-2: -Microfiction and nanofiction describe the shortest forms of flash fiction, including stories that are 300 words or less. Microfiction includes forms such as drabble, dribble, and six-word stories.

Detailed explanation-3: -The definition of “novelette” is any short, fictional work of prose narrative. Novelettes have a lower number of words than a novel or novella, but a higher word count than other forms of prose fiction like short stories or microfiction.

Detailed explanation-4: -A short story is a piece of prose fiction that can typically be read in a single sitting and focuses on a self-contained incident or series of linked incidents, with the intent of evoking a single effect or mood.

Detailed explanation-5: -A sketch story, literary sketch or simply sketch, is a piece of writing that is generally shorter than a short story, and contains very little, if any, plot. The genre was invented after the 16th century in England, as a result of increasing public interest in realistic depictions of “exotic” locales.