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  2. Catastrophe (drama) - Wikipedia

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    In drama, particularly the tragedies of classical antiquity, the catastrophe is the final resolution in a poem or narrative plot, which unravels the intrigue and brings the piece to a close. In comedies, this may be a marriage between main characters ; in tragedies, it may be the death of one or more main characters.

  3. Fable - Wikipedia

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    Anthropomorphic cat guarding geese, Egypt, c. 1120 BCE. Fable is a literary genre defined as a succinct fictional story, in prose or verse, that features animals, legendary creatures, plants, inanimate objects, or forces of nature that are anthropomorphized, and that illustrates or leads to a particular moral lesson (a "moral"), which may at the end be added explicitly as a concise maxim or ...

  4. Quizlet - Wikipedia

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    Quizlet's primary products include digital flash cards, matching games, practice electronic assessments, and live quizzes. In 2017, 1 in 2 high school students used Quizlet. [ 4 ] As of December 2021, Quizlet has over 500 million user-generated flashcard sets and more than 60 million active users.

  5. Portal:Literature/Literature quiz - Wikipedia

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    Welcome to our literature quiz! Question 1 is fairly easy, Question 3 rather difficult. (1) What is the title of the novel in which an English family tries to abduct a child from its ho

  6. Epitasis - Wikipedia

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    It is the third and central part when a play is analyzed into five separate parts: prologue, protasis, epitasis, catastasis and catastrophe. In modern dramatic theory, the dramatic arc is often referred to, which uses somewhat different divisions but is substantially the same concept overall. [citation needed]

  7. Fabula and syuzhet - Wikipedia

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    Timeline of fabula vs syuzhet in Memento. In narratology, fabula (Russian: фабула, IPA:) refers to the chronological sequence of events within the world of a narrative and syuzhet [1] (Russian: сюжет, IPA: [sʲʊˈʐɛt] ⓘ) equates to the sequence of events as they are presented to the reader.

  8. Eucatastrophe - Wikipedia

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    The philologist and fantasy author J. R. R. Tolkien coined the word by affixing the Greek prefix eu, meaning good, to catastrophe, the word traditionally used in classically inspired literary criticism to refer to the "unravelling" or conclusion of a drama's plot.

  9. List of story structures - Wikipedia

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    The catastrophe (Katastrophe in the original) [52] is when the hero meets his logical destruction. Freytag warns the writer not to spare the life of the hero. [ 53 ] Despite the term "dénouement" being attested as first appearing in 1752, [ 54 ] [ 55 ] [ 56 ] it was not used to refer to dramatic structure until the 19th century and not ...