LYRICS
American writer Flannery O'Connor is a master of irony,
as in the story A Good Man Is Hard to Find
in which a manipulative grandmother
imposes her will on a situation,
with the ironic result that she and her family are killed by escaped convicts.
To sum up,
in today's lecture,
we mainly focus on one literary style –
the short story,
and further elaberate on its basic elements and writing art.
The basic elements of the short story
include setting,
conflict,
character,
and theme.
The art of the short story
employs the techniques of point of view,
style,
plot and structure,
and a wide range of devices.
So the writer's choice and control of these techniques
determines the quality of his or her short story.