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  2. List of story structures - Wikipedia

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    The story itself is considered a performance so there is a synergy among the aforementioned elements. [1] In the story, the narrator may draw attention to the narrative or to himself as storyteller. [2] The structure often includes the following: Tell riddles to test the audience. Audience becomes a chorus and comments on the story.

  3. Three-act structure - Wikipedia

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    The first act is usually used for exposition, to establish the main characters, their relationships, and the world they live in.Later in the first act, a dynamic, on-screen incident occurs, known as the inciting incident, or catalyst, that confronts the main character (the protagonist), and whose attempts to deal with this incident lead to a second and more dramatic situation, known as the ...

  4. Story structure - Wikipedia

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    Story is a sequence of events, which can be true or fictitious, that appear in prose, verse or script, designed to amuse or inform an audience. [1] Story structure is a way to organize the story's elements into a recognizable sequence. It has been shown to influence how the brain organizes information. [2]

  5. Stylistic device - Wikipedia

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    Plot structure refers to the configuration of a plot in terms of its exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution/denouement. For example, Dickens' novel Great Expectations is noted for having only a single page of exposition before the rising action begins, while The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien has an unusually ...

  6. Action (narrative) - Wikipedia

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    Peter Selgin refers to methods, including action, dialogue, thoughts, summary, scene, and description. While dialogue is the element that brings a story and its characters to life on the page, and narrative gives the story its depth and substance, action creates the movement within a story. Writing a story means weaving all of the elements of ...

  7. Rising action - Wikipedia

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    Rising action is a segment in the structure of a dramatic or literary work. Rising action, analysed as part of a three-act structure ...

  8. Plot (narrative) - Wikipedia

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    The fabula (story) is what happened in chronological order. In contrast, the syuzhet (plot) means a unique sequence of discourse that was sorted out by the (implied) author. That is, the syuzhet can consist of picking up the fabula events in non-chronological order; for example, fabula is a 1, a 2, a 3, a 4, a 5, ..., a n , syuzhet is a 5, a 1 ...

  9. List of narrative forms - Wikipedia

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    Epic poem – a lengthy story of heroic exploits in the form of a poem. Essay - a short literary composition that reflects the author's outlook or point; Fable – a didactic story, often using animal characters who behave like people. Fantasy – a story about characters that may not be realistic and about events that could not really happen.