LIT Pre-Finals

• Flash Fiction is usually characterized by extreme brevity but maintains to create a developed plot and relatable characters. It is important to note that word count is essential in this genre, having said that, there is no set word count that separates flash fiction from short stories.
• Instead of classifying Flash Fiction into types, it is labeled into varieties that are usually set apart by word count. These varieties include:

  1. six-word story
  2. 280-character story or twitterature
  3. minisaga or dribble (50 words)
  4. microfiction or drabble (100 words)
  5. sudden fiction (750 words)
  6. flash fiction (1,000 words)
  7. micro-story 
• Tatyana Tolstaya is a Russian writer and publicist who came from the Tolstoy family. She is also a TV host of a Russian cultural television program. 
• Tatyana Tolstaya flash fiction essay has been published in The New Yorker. The flash fiction Unnecessary Things was published in The New Yorker in 2017.
• What are the plot of sequence:

  Exposition - Incident - Rising Action - Climax - Falling Action - Resolution
• Olga Zilberbourg (born 1979) is Russian-American bilingual writer writing in both English and Russian. She was born in Saint Petersburg, Russia, to a family of Jewish-Russian intellectuals, and subsequently immigrated to the US. She has published three collections of fiction in Russia, some of them translated from the English by the author.
• Olga Zilberbourg Like Water, her debut English-language collection of stories, came out in 2019. Infestation is one of the stories in this book.
• Etgar Keret is an Israeli writer. He is known for his short stories and graphic novels. He has gained several awards for his works in Israeli television and film.
• Etgar Keret's Director's Cut is one of his flash fiction published in the New Yorker in July 2020.
• Exposition: This is the introduction of the story. It sets the scene, introduces the characters, and establishes the initial situation. Here, you learn about the characters' relationships, the setting (time and place), and the general mood or atmosphere of the story.
• Incident: This is an event that disrupts the initial situation and sets the plot in motion. It could be an internal conflict within a character, an external conflict introduced by another character or force, or a chance event that throws everything off balance.
• Rising Action: This is the middle section of the story where the conflict introduced in the incident builds. The characters face challenges and obstacles as they try to deal with the situation created by the incident. The tension and suspense increase as the story progresses, and the stakes get higher.
• • Climax: This is the turning point of the story, the moment of greatest emotional intensity, or the most important decision point for the characters. Here, the main conflict reaches its peak, and the characters confront the main obstacle or challenge they've been facing.pen_spark
• Falling Action: This is the part of the story where the conflict from the climax starts to resolve. The characters deal with the aftermath of the climax, and the story moves towards a conclusion. The tension and suspense typically begin to decrease here.
• Resolution: This is the final part of the story where the main conflict is resolved. The story ties up loose ends, reveals the final outcome for the characters, and leaves the reader with a sense of closure. Not all resolutions are happy endings; some stories might have bittersweet or tragic endings.
• What are the elements of fiction?

  • Characters
  • Setting
  • Plot
  • Theme
  • Conflict
  • POV Narration
• Narration is the storytelling itself
• Fiction is called fiction because it is a product of imagination
• What is fiction as a genre?

  • Imaginary
• What is pros non-fiction as a genre?

  • Real and factual
• Protagonist - the story revolved his or her life
• Antagonist - the opposes view, opinion, action to the protagonist
• Deuteragonist - Equally important but the life is not talked about in the story
• Stock character - is the character that does not need much thinking like you want a wise person, then you'll get an old man with a long beard
• Flat characters are two-dimensional in that they are relatively uncomplicated and do not change throughout the course of a work
• round characters are complex and undergo development, sometimes sufficiently to surprise the reader.
• Man in a tub uses an ordinary, yet random, event to teach the main character a lesson.
• Man in a hole places the main character in some sort of sticky situation he must get out of
• Man in a hole - The incident begins with a man or group of men getting trapped in some kind of a situation or trouble, goes on to show how they try to climb out or escape from the problem, and ends with either escaping or sliding back to the bottom for good.
• Man in a tub is a plot device used in many short stories. There are two main factors for plot development. A random, yet ordinary, event or situation must arise. The main character must learn a lesson or gain insight for the experience.
• Setting - provides the locale (place) and period (time) of the short story, it may be real or a make believe place and time
• Plot is the series of events which leads to a climax, or high point of interest
• Exposition is the characters and setting are inroduces
• Conflict is the struggle between a character and some other force
• Rising action - during this time the tension builds as the conflict becomes more evident
• Climax - this is the highest point of interest in the story
• Falling action - the event that immediately follows the climax
• Resolution - the part of the story in which loose ends are tied up
• Man on the road are some short stories achieve their unifying effect through a single character journeying through life, encountering various stages of adventure and growth
• Theme is the message of the story