The telling encompasses the writers voice, perspective, diction and syntax.

Narrator: voice, tells the story as true fact. Four different kinds: First person Third person Omniscent Dramatic

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First Person

Major or minor character A level of intimacy Involment is developed Manifests biases, prejudices or ignorance. Children are not realiable, innocence, naive.
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Omniscient

All knowing

Third person

More credible since he or she is not directly involved.

Limited Omniscient

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- only knows the mind of one or two characters from the story.

Stream of conciousness

Creation of characters flow of thought by means of images at random to show how the mind works. -()they were all on the stage, ()she was part of the performance after all. How strange shed never thought of it like that before.
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Dramatic

Writer presents his-her work by means of dialogue and descriptions. Telling is replaced by showing.

-Hills like white elephants.

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Style

The way an author uses language . To achieve effect. Refers to: -imagey, coherence -rhytim,

-diction

-sentence structure repetition

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Words create an effect: describing a circus, Poe

Tone

The authors attitude toward the story. Ironic, formal, informal, comic, serious, satirical, playful, pessimistic, positive, direct, complicated, evasive, antagonist, violent. Tone can change througout the story,

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Theme

A central or dominating idea, abstract concept made concrete. About an issue or subject: poverty. Theme is more developed in some stories. The black cat: perverseness, mental deterioration 5/31/12

Short-short stories

Subgenre, from the very beginning of narrative form, anecdote and fables. Vini,vidi,vinci Fast pace of our lives. Between poetry and fiction. Abbreviated size Unconventional content
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Plot: minimized, focuses in a specific event. Previous events are hinted. Introductory details are reduced or eliminated. Denoument is left unsaid, open,not explicit. Some may be considered plotless. Characters:
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Setting:

-can be minimized to an extreme -psychological. The night---grief unfolds, an actor. Grief.

Narrative voice:

-approaches the story in a personal way. - the girl not explicitly defined.

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Analyzing Short Short Stories

Similar to traditional stories. Differ in two ways:

-traditional emphasize dirrefect aspects

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