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  2. List of story structures - Wikipedia

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    The Turn of the Play: The action of one or more of the characters which sets the course of events moving towards the crisis or climax. The Steps of Action, leading to climax (sometimes called Rising Action): A. B. C. etc. The Decisive Point of Action. Something takes place which makes it impossible for the "rising action" to go further.

  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. 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 ...

  6. 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 ...

  7. Act (drama) - Wikipedia

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    An act is a major division of a theatre work, including a play, film, opera, ballet, or musical theatre, consisting of one or more scenes. [1] [2] The term can either refer to a conscious division placed within a work by a playwright (usually itself made up of multiple scenes) [3] or a unit of analysis for dividing a dramatic work into sequences.

  8. 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 ...

  9. Setting (narrative) - Wikipedia

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    It is a literary element. The setting initiates the main backdrop and mood for a story. The setting can be referred to as story world [1] or milieu to include a context (especially society) beyond the immediate surroundings of the story.