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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. A summary is not meant to reproduce the experience of reading or watching the work. In fact, readers might be here because they didn't understand the original. Just repeating what they have already seen or read is unlikely to help them.

  3. File:Example.pdf - Wikipedia

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    Short title: example derived form Ghostscript examples: Image title: derivative of Ghostscript examples "text_graphic_image.pdf", "alphabet.ps" and "waterfal.ps"

  4. The Seven Basic Plots - Wikipedia

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    For example, novelist and literary critic Adam Mars-Jones wrote, "[Booker] sets up criteria for art, and ends up condemning Rigoletto, The Cherry Orchard, Wagner, Proust, Joyce, Kafka and Lawrence—the list goes on—while praising Crocodile Dundee, E.T. and Terminator 2". [7]

  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. 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] "

  7. 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]

  8. 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.

  9. Synopsis - Wikipedia

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    A synopsis (pl.: synopses) is a brief summary of the major points of a subject or written work or story, either as prose or as a table; an abridgment or condensation of a work. Synopsis or synopsys may also refer to: Video synopsis, an approach to create a short video summary of a long video