Identify elements of the short story on which a critic might comment

plot

duration

theme

character

style

A critic's job is to express a reasoned opinion on any matter especially involving a judgment of its value, truth, beauty, or technique. Therefore, a critic might comment on all the alternatives in this question except for duration, which is applicable to movies, shows, plays, programs but not applicable to stories.

So the answer is these four elements:

Plot

Theme

Character

Style

the correct answer option for this is: false.

explanation:

we are given the following statement 'hawthorne thought of himself as a novelist' which is false.

the truth is that nathaniel hawthorne thought of himself as a romancer, rather than a novelist.

though it is ironic of him of him to consider himself a romancer rather than a novelist despite of the innocent women killings in the salem witch trials which occurred in colonial massachusetts between 1692 and 1693 .