Literature Online--English 112

Understanding Fiction: The Short Story

Objectives for Short Story Web

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Objectives

These Web pages are designed to help you develop several strategies for interpreting and developing ideas to talk and write about stories. Remember to scroll down each page to view the entire page. The page turning button is at the bottom of the page. Use the Back button on the menu bar to move to the previous page. After completing the web pages on the short story, you will be able to

identify and analyze the conventions of the short story;
develop strategies for reading and responding personally and analytically to short stories;
determine how ideas, issues, and/or subjects developed in specific short stories apply to your own life;
determine similarities and differences between reading stories, poems, and plays;
analyze the concepts of "truth" and "imagination" in literature; and
improve written argument by writing critically about fiction.

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