SHORT STORIES
Ours is the great generation of the short story. The growth of the newspaper, the
development of the magazine, the universality of popular education with its increase
in human curiosity - most of all, the increasing pace of modern life, its speed of
living and competitive pressure - gave this literary type its greatest encouragement.
Here is the people's literature, and the most democratic of all forms of writing
because it offers a means for the use of every conceivable sort of plot, character or
background. It's just the right length in a world of tumult and hurry; it is a form that
presents things concisely and graphically, and it is the type of writing most easily
understood by every kind of reader.
E X E R C I S E 1: Find words or phrases in the passage which mean the same as:
COLUMN A COLUMN B
a) desire or eagerness to know about things
b) speed; rate of progress
c) trying to be more successful than others
d) method which makes something possible; way
of achieving something
e) imaginable; that can be believed; possible
f) story line
g) situation in which a story, etc., is set
h) confusion and excitement
i) with a lot of information, but no unnecessary
words or details
j) with descriptions that give a clear picture in the
mind
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