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  2. Wikipedia:How to write a plot summary - Wikipedia

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    A plot summary is not a recap. It should not cover every scene or every moment of a story. The point of a summary is not to reproduce the experience—it's to summarise the story. In some cases, a plot summary might not even present events in the order that the story does. [1] In fact, readers might be here because they didn't understand the ...

  3. Plot (narrative) - Wikipedia

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    A plot summary is a brief description of a piece of literature that explains what happens. In a plot summary, the author and title of the book should be referred to and it is usually no more than a paragraph long while summarizing the main points of the story. [40] [41]

  4. The Seven Basic Plots - Wikipedia

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    The contrasting three, where only the third has positive value, for example, The Three Little Pigs, two of whose houses are blown down by the Big Bad Wolf. The final or dialectical form of three, where, as with Goldilocks and her bowls of porridge, the first is wrong in one way, the second in an opposite way, and the third is "just right".

  5. Wikipedia talk:How to write a plot summary - Wikipedia

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    A concise plot summary is appropriate as part of the larger coverage of a fictional work." Indicate this in the lead section and use it a springboard into writing exactly how we can ensure that plot summaries are concise. Another reference to make is WP:OR, specifically, WP:PSTS. Fictional works are primary sources, so we can only make ...

  6. Wikipedia:Plot-only description of fictional works - Wikipedia

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    The coverage of a fictional work should not be a mere plot summary. A summary should facilitate substantial coverage of the work's real-world development, reception, and significance. This means that an article about a work of fiction or elements from such works should not solely be a summary of the primary and tertiary sources , they should ...

  7. A Good Man Is Hard to Find (short story) - Wikipedia

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    An example of the effect of O'Connor's anagogical vision is an epigraph she wrote for "A Good Man Is Hard to Find". The epigraph was published only in the paperback Three by Flannery O'Connor , which also included her two novels Wise Blood and The Violent Bear It Away , and appeared in September 1964, [ 21 ] a month after her death, and eleven ...

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  9. Wikipedia:Writing better articles - Wikipedia

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    The exact organizing principle of a particular summary-style article is highly context-dependent, with various options, such as chronological, geographical, and alphabetical (primarily in lists), among others. Some examples of summary style are the featured articles Association football and Music of the Lesser Antilles.