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

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    As explained in Wikipedia:Plot-only description of fictional works, an encyclopedia article about a work of fiction frequently includes a concise summary of the plot. The description should be thorough enough for the reader to get a sense of what happens and to fully understand the impact of the work and the context of the commentary about it.

  3. Wikipedia:How to streamline a plot summary - Wikipedia

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    For example, assume that the first 20 minutes of a feature-length film depict a couple who slowly come to believe in a supernatural curse. You need to speed through this to describe the main plot, which takes up the remaining runtime: "Although initially skeptical, the couple experience unexplainable phenomena.

  4. Log line - Wikipedia

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    A log line or logline is a brief (usually one-sentence) summary of a television program, film, short film or book, that states the central conflict of the story, often providing both a synopsis of the story's plot, and an emotional "hook" to stimulate interest. [1] A one-sentence program summary in TV Guide is a log line. [2] "

  5. 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 ...

  6. 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]

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

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    As an example for a well-known movie, look at the plot summary for The Wizard of Oz (1939 film)#Plot. After the character Dorothy Gale in introduced in the first sentence, imagine replacing all mentions of "Dorothy" with "Gale" in the rest of that plot summary.

  8. 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".

  9. Freud: The Secret Passion - Wikipedia

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    In 1958, John Huston decided to make a film about the life of the young Sigmund Freud, and asked Jean-Paul Sartre to write a summary of a projected scenario. Sartre submitted a synopsis of 95 pages, which was accepted, but later completed a finished script that, if filmed, would have amounted to a running time of five hours, which Huston ...