A ____________ is a brief fictional or nonfictional narrative. It has a limited number of characters characters and has a single plot or event.
Short Story
It includes place, time, and culture of where the story happens. It is usually decorated with descriptions of scenes to make the readers be engaged in the plot.
Setting
It refers to the struggle between opposing forces or people that is the basis of plot in the story.
Conflict
It is a sequence of events in organized pattern. It gives the reader or audience the whole picture of events in the story – as it unfolds and move from one time to another.
Plot
It refers to the angle from which the writer tells the story. You may ask, “Who is telling the story?” There is a narrator who tells the story.
Point of view
It is the attitude of the writer toward a subject. Is it happy or sad?
Tone
It is the feeling that the writer created in the reader.
Mood
It is the central message, the main idea or the controlling topic about life or people the author wants to get across through a literary work.
Theme
