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  2. Essay - Wikipedia

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    Essay. An essay is, generally, a piece of writing that gives the author's own argument, but the definition is vague, overlapping with those of a letter, a paper, an article, a pamphlet, and a short story. Essays have been sub-classified as formal and informal: formal essays are characterized by "serious purpose, dignity, logical organization ...

  3. List of narrative techniques - Wikipedia

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    A narrative technique (also, in fiction, a fictional device) is any of several specific methods the creator of a narrative uses [1] —in other words, a strategy applied in the delivering of a narrative to relay information to the audience and to make the narrative more complete, complex, or engaging. Some scholars also call such a technique a ...

  4. Storytelling - Wikipedia

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    Storytelling is a means for sharing and interpreting experiences. Peter L. Berger says human life is narratively rooted, humans construct their lives and shape their world into homes in terms of these groundings and memories. Stories are universal in that they can bridge cultural, linguistic and age-related divides.

  5. Short story - Wikipedia

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    The Frame story, also known as the frame narrative or story within a story, is a narrative technique that probably originated in ancient Indian works such as Panchatantra. [15] [16] The evolution of printing technologies and periodical editions were among the factors contributing to the increasing importance of short story publications.

  6. Theme (narrative) - Wikipedia

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    Theme (narrative) In contemporary literary studies, a theme is a central topic, subject, or message within a narrative. [1] Themes can be divided into two categories: a work's thematic concept is what readers "think the work is about" and its thematic statement being "what the work says about the subject". [2]

  7. First-person narrative - Wikipedia

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    Charlotte Brontë, the author of Jane Eyre, which is known as "the classic example of first-person narrative" A classic example of a first-person protagonist narrator is Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre (1847), [1] in which the title character is telling the story in which she herself is also the protagonist: [6] "I could not unlove him now ...