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June Flash Challenge

Here's your Flash Fic Challenge!

Literary Techniques

It will be your mission, if you so choose to accept, to write a Flash Fic that fulfills the following requirements:

Choose 2 (no more, no less) of the following literary techniques, and use them effectively in your response—aka to enhance your story:

  1. Irony - This discrepancy between expectation and reality occurs in three forms:
    1. situational irony, where a situation features a discrepancy between what is expected and what is actualized;
    2. dramatic irony, where a character is unaware of pivotal information already revealed to the audience (the discrepancy here lies in the two levels of awareness between the character and the audience); and
    3. verbal irony, where one states one thing while meaning another. The difference between verbal irony and sarcasm is exquisitely subtle and often contested, but exists nonetheless.
    The concept of irony is too often misunderstood in popular usage. Unfortunate circumstances and coincidences do not constitute irony.
  2. Unreliable narrator - The narrator of the story is not sincere, or introduces a bias in his narration and possibly misleads the reader, hiding or minimizing events, characters, or motivations.
  3. Stream of consciousness - Technique where the author writes down his or her thoughts as fast as they come, typically to create an interior monologue characterized by leaps in syntax and punctuation that trace a character's fragmentary thoughts and sensory feelings.
  4. Ticking clock scenario - Threat of impending disaster—often used in thrillers where salvation and escape are essential elements.
  5. Plot twist - Unexpected change ("twist") in the direction or expected outcome of the plot. See also twist ending.
  6. Foreshadowing - Hinting at events to occur later.
  7. Pathetic Fallacy - Reflecting a character's (usually the protagonist) mood in the atmosphere or inanimate objects—for example, the storm in William Shakespeare's King Lear, which mirrors Lear's mental deterioration.
It should be obvious to us, while reading your submission, which techniques you chose. Do NOT tell us which ones you chose.

That's all. Have fun! :)

Standard rules apply:

  1. Your submission must not exceed 1,000 words (not including Author's Note, Disclaimer, Title, etc.),
  2. It cannot be posted to FictionPress until the deadline has passed, and
  3. It must be in Mae's inbox, via the submission form by June 23rd, 2010 at 11:59PM Pacific Standard Time.

Please read more about Flash Fiction here (an article written by our lovely Vena).

If you have any questions, feel free to contact us. :)