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  2. A Dialogue Among Clever People - Wikipedia

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    A Dialogue Among Clever People" (AKA: "A Talk Among Leisured People") is a short story by Leo Tolstoy published in 1892. Aylmer Maude was one of the first translators. According to literary critic Robert Ellsberg , in this story, an aristocrat articulates about happiness and concludes that happiness can best be found in the ideal of the ...

  3. List of narrative techniques - Wikipedia

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    Name Definition Example Setting as a form of symbolism or allegory: The setting is both the time and geographic location within a narrative or within a work of fiction; sometimes, storytellers use the setting as a way to represent deeper ideas, reflect characters' emotions, or encourage the audience to make certain connections that add complexity to how the story may be interpreted.

  4. Dialogue - Wikipedia

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    The term dialogue stems from the Greek διάλογος (dialogos, ' conversation '); its roots are διά (dia, ' through ') and λόγος (logos, ' speech, reason '). The first extant author who uses the term is Plato, in whose works it is closely associated with the art of dialectic. [3] Latin took over the word as dialogus. [4]

  5. They're Made Out of Meat - Wikipedia

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    "They're Made Out of Meat" is a short story by American writer Terry Bisson. It was originally published in OMNI. [1] It consists entirely of dialogue between two characters. Bisson's website hosts a theatrical adaptation. [2] A film adaptation won the Grand Prize at the Seattle Science Fiction Museum's 2006 film festival. [3]

  6. Show, don't tell - Wikipedia

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    In his book Constructing a Story and his webseries Hats Off to the Screenwriters!, Yves Lavandier argues that one can show with dialogue. He takes the example of a scene from Prison Break in which pure dialogue between Michael Scofield (Wentworth Miller) and Tweener (Lane Garrison) shows (and does not tell) that Tweener is an expert pickpocket ...

  7. List of narrative forms - Wikipedia

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    Novella – a written, fictional, prose narrative normally longer than a short story but shorter than a novel. Parable – a succinct, didactic story, in prose or verse, which illustrates one or more instructive lessons or principles. Play – a story that is told mostly through dialogue and is meant to be performed on stage.

  8. Text types - Wikipedia

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    The common structure or basic plan of narrative text is known as the "story grammar". Although there are numerous variations of the story grammar, the typical elements are: Settings – when and where the story occurs. Characters – the most important people or characters in the story.

  9. Dialog act - Wikipedia

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    Types of dialog acts include a question, a statement, or a request for action. [2] Dialog acts are a type of speech act. Dialog act recognition, also known as spoken utterance classification, is an important part of spoken language understanding. AI inference models or statistical models are used to recognize and classify dialog acts. [2]