Meaning of Short Story “a short story is should find from quality, that is how many words: between 500-20.000 words, have a plot, character and impression.”
But according to Aoh, KH “short story is one of variation fiction or fabrication which often told short of prose metaphor.” And the other defines about
short story. That means no one exactly, and also is not contradiction one of the others, near all of them is agree on one conclusion, that short story is short fabricated.
3.2. Characteristic of a Short Story
From some books and meaning which suitable for guidelines is opinion from the best of short story writer, Edgar Allan Poe, it is can be guidelines, because
theoretically it meet characteristic of scientific and as practice it can to application. His detailed opinion was written by is it M. Diponegoro in his book Yuk Nulis Cerpen
Yuk, as followed. First, short story should be short, how short? As long as one sitting time when
we are waited for a bus or train, beside that, the short story writer not like other novelists, stop his narrative. However the physical characters analyzed or their
portraits painted, he cannot take time out to draw a scene. The writer must intimate the setting, imply the complexity, insinuate character, and the reader must infer the
rest. Second, the short story made one effect and unique. According to Poe,
oneness mind and action can improve by one line from beginning until the end. In short story. Never have various of digress.
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Third, the short story should be limited and compact. Every detail should have an end and a conclusion. Because the making of words and sentences. Because the
making of words and sentences as side as possible is a capability that should be possessed by a short story writer.
Fourth, the short story should make his reader confident, that his story is true, not just a fiction. It needs special skills, have concerns in the character, that they are
real, as a human being. Fifth, the short story should give ending conclusion. No more touched. That
the story has been ended. There are three main qualities that mark the short story as clearly different
from prose fiction that make it a “genre”. The first quality is, of course brevity. The second is, it power of compensating for the consequences of shortness and the third
is, the interaction of one to two. The beauty of the short story is that all its elements can be drawn to a single
point that shines with such brightness that all the past moments of the tale are bathed in light seen as a whole, as a radiance.
3.3. Elements of a Short Story
