Meaning of short story in English
(Definition of short story from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
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Examples of short story
short story
They do the final version with titles, visuals or other stylistic touches that make the short story a good publication.
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Both images are static; in both short story and opera, the narrator's primary function is to pre-determine the moral fate of the heroine.
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After completing the imagery task, participants took a multiple-choice idiom comprehension task, where each idiom was presented in the context of a short story.
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The short story ends by citing this as an example of a truly noble deed.
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However, this film goes far beyond the short story, play, opera and silent film by considerably fleshing out the narrative.
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Prominent in the 1870s, one short story narrates the marriage of the protagonist, who is bankrupted by the ostentatious wedding.
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Participants read a short story, completed three different comprehension assessment tasks and additional selfassessment items.
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There is loss of information, for example of a short story, from immediate to delayed recall.
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Her short story cycle most dramatically articulates the child protagonist's complex relationship with her land.
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This probably also explains his preference for the short story and novella as forms of literary expression.
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Engaging the short story cycle in the representation of place and community extends layers of meaning and ways of signifying.
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The subsequent discussion of the role of the romantic short story or novella is particularly evocative.
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Each task consisted of a short story followed by a number of questions relating to that story.
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This is tested by giving the patient a series of words or a short story to remember and then asking them to recall these after a brief period of distraction.
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I should like to begin with a short story.
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