Compare and contrast the literary elements between a short story and a play.

In the
absence of a narrator, a play relies heavily on stage directions, such as asides, to direct the
reader's attention to key details about character, plot, or setting. A play will also
communicate key information through monologues and soliloquies, which by their nature are not
features of short stories. Dialogue, while present in both plays and short stories, becomes even
more important in a play, as it is the primary way that characters are developed. Some literary
elements will be present in both plays and short stories: plays often contain rich symbolism,
like Cyrano de Bergerac, which uses the white flag/plume as a key symbol. ,
suspense, andmay also be present in both genres. Shakespeare's play Hamlet
obviously contains all three, but so does the short story "The Most Dangerous Game" by
Richard Connell, for example.