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  2. List of songs based on literary works - Wikipedia

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    The Dire Straits songs makes use of certain aspects of Shakespeare's play, as well as elements of some of the play's stage and screen adaptations. It also purposely diverges from the play's plot and characterizations in certain respects (such as Juliet's reaction to being approached by Romeo).

  3. Narration - Wikipedia

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    Narration is the use of a written or spoken commentary to convey a story to an audience. [1] Narration is conveyed by a narrator: a specific person, or unspecified literary voice, developed by the creator of the story to deliver information to the audience, particularly about the plot: the series of events.

  4. List of narrative forms - Wikipedia

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    Narrative forms have been subject to classification by literary theorists, in particular during the 1950s, a period which has been described metaphorically as the Linnaean period in the study of narrative. [1] Epistolary - a story usually in a letter written form with a section of dialogue; Narrative forms include:

  5. Narrative - Wikipedia

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    Narrative can be organized into a number of thematic or formal categories: nonfiction (such as creative nonfiction, biography, journalism, transcript poetry, and historiography); fictionalization of historical events (such as anecdote, myth, legend, and historical fiction) and fiction proper (such as literature in the form of prose and ...

  6. Narrative communication - Wikipedia

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    Narrative communication is a way of communicating through telling stories. Narratives can be defined as a symbolic representations of cohesive and coherent events with an identifiable structure, which are bounded in space and time and contain implicit or explicit messages about the topics being addressed. [1]

  7. List of narrative techniques - Wikipedia

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    Name Definition Example Setting as a form of symbolism or allegory: The setting is both the time and geographic location within a narrative or within a work of fiction; sometimes, storytellers use the setting as a way to represent deeper ideas, reflect characters' emotions, or encourage the audience to make certain connections that add complexity to how the story may be interpreted.

  8. List of writing genres - Wikipedia

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    Slave narrative. Contemporary; Neo; Consilia; Cookbook: a kitchen reference containing recipes. Creative nonfiction: factual narrative presented in the form of a story so as to entertain the reader. Personal narrative: a prose relating personal experience and opinion to a factual narrative.

  9. Narrative poetry - Wikipedia

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    An example of this is The Ring and the Book by Robert Browning. In terms of narrative poetry, romance is a narrative poem that tells a story of chivalry. Examples include the Romance of the Rose or Tennyson's Idylls of the King. Although those examples use medieval and Arthurian materials, romances may also tell stories from classical mythology.