Short story

The short story is a form of short fictional narrative prose. Short stories tend to be more concise and to the point than longer works of fiction, such as novellas and novels. Because of their brevity, successful short stories rely on literary devices such as character, plot, theme, language, and insight to a greater extent than long form fiction. Famous modern English-language short stories include The Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce, The Dead by James Joyce, To Build A Fire by Jack London, and A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner.

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Fictional - Narrative - Prose - Novellas - Novels - Literary - Character - Plot - Theme - Language - Insight - English - Ernest Hemingway - An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge - Ambrose Bierce - James Joyce - Jack London - William Faulkner

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Short stories have their origins in the prose anecdote, a swiftly-sketched situation that comes rapidly to its point, with parallels in oral story-telling traditions. With the rise of the comparatively realistic novel, the short story evolved as a miniature, with some of its first perfectly independent examples in the tales of E.T.A. Hoffman and Edgar Allan Poe.

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Anecdote - Oral - Realistic - E.T.A. Hoffman - Edgar Allan Poe

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