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  2. Harry Potter (character) - Wikipedia

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    Gryffindor. Born. 31 July 1980. Harry James Potter is a fictional character in the Harry Potter series of novels by J. K. Rowling. The plot of the seven-book series chronicles seven years in the life of the orphan Harry, who, on his eleventh birthday, learns he is a wizard. He attends Hogwarts, a school of magic, where he receives guidance from ...

  3. Our Town - Wikipedia

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    Our Town is a three-act play written by American playwright Thornton Wilder in 1938. Described by Edward Albee as "the greatest American play ever written", [1] it presents the fictional American town of Grover's Corners between 1901 and 1913 through the everyday lives of its citizens. Wilder uses metatheatrical devices, setting the play in the ...

  4. Three-act structure - Wikipedia

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    The three-act structure is a model used in narrative fiction that divides a story into three parts (acts), often called the Setup, the Confrontation, and the Resolution. It was popularized by Syd Field in his 1979 book Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting. Based on his recommendation that a play have a "beginning, middle, and end," the ...

  5. Matt Roth (actor) - Wikipedia

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    Stephanie Childers. . . (m. 2015) . Children. 3. Matthew P. Roth (born September 15, 1964) is an American actor. He had a recurring role on Roseanne as Jackie's abusive boyfriend, Fisher, from 1992 to 1993. He joined the cast of Desperate Housewives in fall 2006 as new neighbor Art Shephard.

  6. The Writer's Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers - Wikipedia

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    Dewey Decimal. 808.2/3 22. LC Class. PN1996 .V64 2007. The Writer's Journey: Mythic Structure For Writers is a popular writing textbook by writer Christopher Vogler, focusing on the theory that most stories can be boiled down to a series of narrative structures and character archetypes, described through mythological allegory.

  7. List of The Emperor's New Groove characters - Wikipedia

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    The main characters in The Emperor's New Groove. From left to right: Yzma, Kronk, Kuzco (in llama form), and Pacha. The following are fictional characters from Disney 's 2000 animated film The Emperor's New Groove, its direct-to-video sequel Kronk's New Groove, and the spin-off television series The Emperor's New School.

  8. Temperament and Character Inventory - Wikipedia

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    The Temperament and Character Inventory (TCI) is an inventory for personality traits devised by Cloninger et al. [1] It is closely related to and an outgrowth of the Tridimensional Personality Questionnaire (TPQ), and it has also been related to the dimensions of personality in Zuckerman's alternative five and Eysenck's models [2] and those of the five factor model.

  9. Given circumstances - Wikipedia

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    Given circumstances include conditions of the character's world (e.g. specifics of time and place: in Hamlet for instance, being in Elsinore at a specific time in history is a given circumstance), elements from the history of the character's environment (e.g. Hamlet: the death of the old King Hamlet preceding the play's plot is a given ...