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  2. Transition (fiction) - Wikipedia

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    Transitions in fiction are words, phrases, sentences, paragraphs, or punctuation that may be used to signal various changes in a story, including changes in time, location, point-of-view character, mood, tone, emotion, and pace. [1] [2] Transitions are sometimes listed as one of various fiction-writing modes.

  3. List of literary movements - Wikipedia

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    Literary movements are a way to divide literature into categories of similar philosophical, topical, or aesthetic features, as opposed to divisions by genre or period. Like other categorizations, literary movements provide language for comparing and discussing literary works. These terms are helpful for curricula or anthologies. [1]

  4. Period 6 element - Wikipedia

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    A period 6 element is one of the chemical elements in the sixth row (or period) of the periodic table of the chemical elements, including the lanthanides.The periodic table is laid out in rows to illustrate recurring (periodic) trends in the chemical behaviour of the elements as their atomic number increases: a new row is begun when chemical behaviour begins to repeat, meaning that elements ...

  5. Life: A User's Manual - Wikipedia

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    Perec used Graeco-Latin squares or "bi-squares" to distribute these elements across the 99 chapters of the book. A bi-square is similar to a sudoku puzzle, though more complicated, as two lists of elements must be distributed across the grid. In the pictured example, these two lists are the first three letters of the Greek and Latin alphabets ...

  6. The Seven Basic Plots - Wikipedia

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    [5] Beryl Bainbridge, Richard Adams, Ronald Harwood, and John Bayley also spoke positively of the work, while philosopher Roger Scruton described it as a "brilliant summary of story-telling". [6] Others have dismissed the book on grounds that Booker is too rigid in fitting works of art to the plot types above.

  7. The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations - Wikipedia

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    The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations is a descriptive list which was first proposed by Georges Polti in 1895 to categorize every dramatic situation that might occur in a story or performance. [1] Polti analyzed classical Greek texts, plus classical and contemporaneous French works. He also analyzed a handful of non-French authors.

  8. 6 life lessons 'The Wizard of Oz' taught us all - AOL

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    So in honor of the 77th anniversary of the classic film, take a look at the life lessons we all learned from the iconic movie: SEE ALSO: Pokémon live-action movie is finally a go 1.

  9. Three-act structure - Wikipedia

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    [1] The third act features the resolution of the story and its subplots. The climax is the scene or sequence in which the main tensions of the story are brought to their most intense point and the dramatic question answered, leaving the protagonist and other characters with a new sense of who they really are. [1]