The mаin ideаs оf the fоllоwing pаragraphs appear at different locations. Identify the sentence (number) that expresses the main idea of this paragraph. 1The short story is a literary form with certain characteristics that define it. 2First of all, it must be fiction. 3That is, the story is something made up by an author and is not intended to be an historical account of events that really occurred or people who really lived. 4Nevertheless, most short stories seek to depict a realistic episode in the life of an imaginary person, usually as that person encounters a challenge or difficulty of some kind. 5Some attention is paid to describing the setting where the action takes place, and to giving the main character a number of different traits to make him or her seem more believable. 6If the short story has an obvious moral or lesson, it may also be called a fable or parable. 7The Irish writer James Joyce borrowed the religious term “epiphany” to describe a moment of realization or new understanding that often occurs at the climax of the modern short story. 8How long is a short story? 9Edgar Allen Poe, a 19th century American writer, famously said that a short story should be short enough to be read at one sitting and should be focused on creating a single effect. 10In practice, most literary critics today put the length of a short story between about one thousand and twenty thousand words. 11Anything shorter is called “flash fiction” or a “short-short story,” and a longer work is called a novella, or, if longer than about fifty thousand words, a novel. Main Idea is sentence number _____.
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