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  2. The Seven Basic Plots - Wikipedia

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    Odyssey (), Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll), "Goldilocks and the Three Bears", Orpheus, The Time Machine (), Peter Rabbit (Beatrix Potter), The Hobbit (J.R.R. Tolkien), Brideshead Revisited (Evelyn Waugh), "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" (Samuel Taylor Coleridge), Gone with the Wind (Margaret Mitchell), The Third Man, The Lion King, Back to the Future, The Lion, the Witch ...

  3. Storyline - Wikipedia

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    Storyline may refer to: The plot or subplot of a story; The narrative of a work, whether of fictional or nonfictional basis; The narrative threads experienced by each ...

  4. Narrative thread - Wikipedia

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    A narrative thread, or plot thread (or, more ambiguously, a storyline), refers to particular elements and techniques of writing to center the story in the action or experience of characters rather than to relate a matter in a dry "all-knowing" sort of narration.

  5. Story arc - Wikipedia

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    A story arc (also narrative arc) is the chronological construction of a plot in a novel or story.It can also mean an extended or continuing storyline in episodic storytelling media such as television, comic books, comic strips, board games, video games, and films with each episode following a dramatic arc. [1]

  6. Storytelling - Wikipedia

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    Such elements include the essential idea of narrative structure with identifiable beginnings, middles, and endings, or exposition-development-climax-resolution-denouement, normally constructed into coherent plot lines; a strong focus on temporality, which includes retention of the past, attention to present action and protention/future ...

  7. Canon (fiction) - Wikipedia

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    Events, characters, and storylines from tie-in novels, comic books, and video games are explicitly excluded from the Star Trek canon, but the site notes that elements from these sources have been subsequently introduced into the television series, and says that "canon is not something set in stone". [5]

  8. Narrative - Wikipedia

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    In Storytelling Rights: The uses of oral and written texts by urban adolescents, author Amy Shuman offers the following definition of storytelling rights: "the important and precarious relationship between narrative and event and, specifically, between the participants in an event and the reporters who claim the right to talk about what happened."

  9. Plot (narrative) - Wikipedia

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    Plot is similar in meaning to the term storyline. [2] [3] In the narrative sense, the term highlights important points which have consequences within the story, according to American science fiction writer Ansen Dibell. [1] The premise sets up the plot, and the setting also influences the final story.