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  2. Rhetorical modes - Wikipedia

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    But a narrative essay differs from a descriptive one in its emphasis on time and sequence. The essayist turns storyteller, establishing when and in what order a series of related events occurred. [8] Exactly the same guidelines that hold for a descriptive or narrative essay can be used for the descriptive or narrative paragraph.

  3. List of poetry groups and movements - Wikipedia

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    To be a 'school' a group of poets must share a common style or a common ethos. A commonality of form is not in itself sufficient to define a school; for example, Edward Lear, George du Maurier and Ogden Nash do not form a school simply because they all wrote limericks. There are many different 'schools' of poetry.

  4. List of literary movements - Wikipedia

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    It refers to a group of American literary notables who lived in Paris and other parts of Europe from the time period which saw the end of World War I to the beginning of the Great Depression [97] F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Ezra Pound, Waldo Pierce, John Dos Passos: Stridentism: A Mexican artistic avant-garde movement.

  5. Story structure - Wikipedia

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    Story structure or narrative structure is the recognizable or comprehensible way in which a narrative's different elements are unified, including in a particularly chosen order and sometimes specifically referring to the ordering of the plot: the narrative series of events, though this can vary based on culture.

  6. Formalism (literature) - Wikipedia

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    The plot/story distinction separates out the sequence of events the work relates (the story) from the sequence in which those events are presented in the work (the plot). Both of these concepts are attempts to describe the significance of the form of a literary work in order to define its "literariness."

  7. Plot (narrative) - Wikipedia

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    The fabula (story) is what happened in chronological order. In contrast, the syuzhet (plot) means a unique sequence of discourse that was sorted out by the (implied) author. That is, the syuzhet can consist of picking up the fabula events in non-chronological order; for example, fabula is a 1, a 2, a 3, a 4, a 5, ..., a n , syuzhet is a 5, a 1 ...

  8. 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 ...

  9. Outline of literature - Wikipedia

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    Literature can be described as all of the following: Communication – activity of conveying information. Communication requires a sender, a message, and an intended recipient, although the receiver need not be present or aware of the sender's intent to communicate at the time of communication; thus communication can occur across vast distances in time and space.