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  2. The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations - Wikipedia

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    Example: Agamemnon (play) Falling prey to cruelty/misfortune. an unfortunate; a master or a misfortune; The unfortunate suffers from misfortune and/or at the hands of the master. Example: Job (biblical figure) Revolt. a tyrant; a conspirator; The tyrant, a cruel power, is plotted against by the conspirator. Example: Julius Caesar (play) Daring ...

  3. 17-animal inheritance puzzle - Wikipedia

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    It is a common example of an apportionment problem. Despite often being framed as a puzzle, it is more an anecdote about a curious calculation than a problem with a clear mathematical solution. [1] Beyond recreational mathematics and mathematics education, the story has been repeated as a parable with varied metaphorical meanings.

  4. Wheat and chessboard problem - Wikipedia

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    One of them includes the geometric progression problem. The story is first known to have been recorded in 1256 by Ibn Khallikan. [3] Another version has the inventor of chess (in some tellings Sessa, an ancient Indian Minister) request his ruler give him wheat according to the wheat and chessboard problem. The ruler laughs it off as a meager ...

  5. Conflict (narrative) - Wikipedia

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    One example of the "man against man" conflict is the relationship struggles between the protagonist and the antagonist stepfather in This Boy's Life. [13] Other examples include Dorothy's struggles with the Wicked Witch of the West in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and Tom Sawyer's confrontation with Injun Joe in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. [1]

  6. Shakespearean problem play - Wikipedia

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    Though Harmon's conception of the problem-plays does not align with the common understanding of Shakespeare's problem-plays, he does provide examples of the social dilemmas that Shakespeare addresses through these plays. The common social problem, per Harmon, is the tension between laws establishing order and the natural tendencies of humans.

  7. Wolf, goat and cabbage problem - Wikipedia

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    In the Class of 3000 episode "Westley Side Story", Sunny and his students perform a similar exercise involving a chicken, a coyote and a sack of corn. The Between the Lions episode "Farmer Ken's Puzzle" portrays it being made into a computer game with a cat, a hen, and a sack of seeds. Interactive chicken, fox and grain problem.

  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. List of writing genres - Wikipedia

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    Romantic fiction primarily focuses on a love story between two people, usually with an optimistic, emotionally satisfying ending. [1] Also Romance (literary fiction) – works that frequently, but not exclusively, takes the form of the historical romance. Amish; Chivalric. Fantasy: One example is The Princess Bride. Contemporary. Gay; Lesbian ...