Elements of the short story

Introduction

Hello everyone!

This webquest is about to teach you the elements of short story which are the characters, setting, plot, conflict and theme. Also, the definition of them as well as examples to understand them more. Each element is important in making the story complete and interesting.

Elements of a Short Story - Ourboox

Task

For the first task, define each element of the short story.

As for the second task,

Read  'The Tell-Tale Heart' and then identify each element of the short story giving example of each element from the story. 

Process

Please follow the link below as it has the definitions and explanations of the elements of the short story.

https://users.aber.ac.uk/jpm/ellsa/ellsa_elements.html

And watch this video to try to understand the short story 'The Tell-Tale Heart' more and to be able to distinguish between the different elements we have in the short story 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7d7qVgNj8g

 

And in this following link, you can understand more about the different elements in the short story 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcXRXwneFY0

Evaluation

Good job everyone!

Now you have finished studying and learning about the different elements of the short story and now you should be able to differentiate  between them. 

Now for the assessment:

For the first task which is to differentiate between the different elements of the short story, you will be scoring 5 marks, each definition is worth one mark only. 

As for the second task, which is to write the elements of  'The Tell-Tale Heart', it is also worth 5 marks. 

Anyone who makes a project regarding this topic and choose any short story they want, explaining the elements of the story in details, will earn extra 5 marks.