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  2. List of writing genres - Wikipedia

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    The hero's journey is the most popular narrative structure of an adventure novel. [5] Adventure fantasy Heroic fantasy; Lost world; Sword-and-sandal; Sword-and-sorcery; Sword-and-soul; Wuxia; Nautical. Pirate; Robinsonade; Spy: fiction involving espionage and establishment of modern intelligence agencies. Spy-Fi: spy fiction that includes ...

  3. Widows and orphans - Wikipedia

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    The very short final line of a paragraph composed of a single word (highlighted blue) is a runt. The first line of a paragraph beginning at the end of a page (highlighted green) is called an orphan (sometimes called a widow).

  4. List of story structures - Wikipedia

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    Joseph Berg Esenwein in 1909 published, "Writing the short-story; a practical handbook on the rise, structure, writing, and sale of the modern short-story." In it he outlines the following plot elements and ties it to a drawing, [ 59 ] following Whitcomb's prescriptions: Incident, emotion, crisis, suspense, climax, dénouement, conclusion.

  5. White Gold Wielder - Wikipedia

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    White Gold Wielder is a fantasy novel by American writer Stephen R. Donaldson, the final book of the second trilogy of The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant series. Plot summary [ edit ]

  6. Writing style - Wikipedia

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    In literature, writing style is the manner of expressing thought in language characteristic of an individual, period, school, or nation. [1] As Bryan Ray notes, however, style is a broader concern, one that can describe "readers' relationships with, texts, the grammatical choices writers make, the importance of adhering to norms in certain contexts and deviating from them in others, the ...

  7. Literary genre - Wikipedia

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    A literary genre is a category of literature.Genres may be determined by literary technique, tone, content, or length (especially for fiction).They generally move from more abstract, encompassing classes, which are then further sub-divided into more concrete distinctions. [1]

  8. Parental portrayals in the media - Wikipedia

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    Mass media has presented a multitude of family structures and has promoted the acceptance of alternate family structures in many ways including television, newspapers, movies, commercials, books, comics, etc. [2] Media is linked to the structure of families, given that parents and their children confide in it when questioning their own family ...

  9. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Novels - Wikipedia

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    This section should lay out the writing styles employed by the author. For example, if the novel is an epistolary novel, there should be an explanation of that style and how it works specifically in this particular novel. Also, any notable features of the writer's style should be spelled out.