Similarities

Similarities

1. PLOT: Short Stories and Novels organize the action, thought, and dialogue of their character into a plot

   • Tragic
   • Comic
   • Romantic
   • Satiric

2. Type of story/novel

   • Story/novel of incident: the focus of interest is on the course and outcome of the events.
   • Story/novel of character: The focus on the state of mind and motivation, or on the psyhological and moral qualities, of the protagonists.

3. Novel and Short Story

   • Differences:
     • Magnitude: imposes differences in both the effects that the story can achieve and in the choice, elaboration, and management of the elements to achieve those effects
       • Development:
         • Novel: ampler development of milieu
         • Short story: cannot afford the space for the leisurely analysis and cannot develop as detailed as social milieu as does the novelist
       • Setting
         • Novel: more detailes of the setting
         • short story: less detailes of the setting
       • Characters
         • Novel: permits a greater variety of characters and more sustained exploration of character and motives
         • Short story: introduces a very limited number of persons and cannot sustained development of character
       • Complication of the plot:
         • Novel: Novel: greater complications of plot
         • Short story: keeps the complications down
     • PLOT:
       • Novel: plot focused on the series of events and actions ordered by the narrative. It generally has a single major plot and often a group of minor subplots.
       • Short Story: plot focused on a single incident, idea, disclosure or moment of change. It is limited to a certain, unique or single effect.