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  2. Dialogue in writing - Wikipedia

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    Dialogue is usually identified by the use of quotation marks and a dialogue tag, such as 'she said'. [5] "This breakfast is making me sick," George said. 'George said' is the dialogue tag, [6] which is also known as an identifier, an attributive, [7] a speaker attribution, [8] a speech attribution, [9] a dialogue tag, and a tag line. [10]

  3. Dialogue - Wikipedia

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    In the 1200s, Nichiren Daishonin wrote some of his important writings in dialogue form, describing a meeting between two characters in order to present his argument and theory, such as in "Conversation between a Sage and an Unenlightened Man" (The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin 1: pp. 99–140, dated around 1256), and "On Establishing the ...

  4. List of narrative forms - Wikipedia

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    Realistic fiction – stories which portray fictional characters, settings, and events that could exist in real life. Screenplay – a story that is told through dialogue and character action that is meant to be performed for a motion picture and exhibited on a screen. Short story – a brief story that usually focuses on one character and one ...

  5. Template:Dialogue - Wikipedia

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    This is a complex template designed to make it easy to write out lines of dialogue. This template cannot be subst:'d. The template can handle most standard formats of writing dialogue, and can be indented, bulleted or numbered. {} facilitates the writing of dialogue in a standard format.

  6. Ion (dialogue) - Wikipedia

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    Plato's argument is supposed to be an early example of a so-called genetic fallacy since his conclusion arises from his famous lodestone (magnet) analogy. [attribution needed] Ion, the rhapsode "dangles like a lodestone at the end of a chain of lodestones. The muse inspires the poet (Homer in Ion’s case) and the poet inspires the rhapsode."

  7. Play (theatre) - Wikipedia

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    A central aspect of theatre of the absurd is the deliberate contradiction between language and action. Often, the dialogue between characters starkly contrasts with their actions. Prominent playwrights within this genre include Samuel Beckett, Jean-Paul Sartre, Eugène Ionesco, Arthur Adamov, and Jean Genet. [9]

  8. List of contemporary epistolary novels - Wikipedia

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    An expanded version of Keyes' 1959 short story of the same name. This book is the journal of mentally disabled janitor, Charlie Gordon, who temporarily becomes a super-genius during a medical experiment. Through changes in grammar and style, Charlie's mental rise and fall are presented. Michael Kimball: Dear Everybody: 2008

  9. First-person narrative - Wikipedia

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    Three notable examples are The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, where the narrator is Death, From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, where the narrator is the titular character but is describing the story of the main characters, and The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold, where a young girl, having been killed, observes, from some post ...