The first literature course, Fundamentals of literature, has already introduced you with the important terminologies that can help you communicate with any literature book. You have also acquired the concepts in relation to the elements of literature. This would be a good input for other literature courses you are studying and so does for this course too. This course, The Short Story, therefore, will help to scrutinize the elements of fiction and the techniques of storytelling that you have been introduced with by the previous course. In addition, an effort is made to make the short story clear as a genre by its own. The course invites students to interpret dramatic texts through an illustrated discussion of elements of drama. In reading a dramatic text, students will learn that drama is a reflection of life to which they can bring out their own experiences and respond to what they read/watch in some way. In addition, students will get as more chances as possible for practicing language while studying how drama is structured. The course is organized into four chapters. It starts with a general introduction about drama and moves on to the origin and historical developments of the genre. The second chapter deals with the types of drama. The elements of drama will be reviewed in chapter three. Chapter five will be concerned with dramatic devices. The last chapter will highlight some points on how to present one’s reaction to a drama through writing.

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