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  2. 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] "

  3. Storytelling - Wikipedia

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    The meaning within the stories is not always explicit, and children are expected to make their own meaning of the stories. In the Lakota Tribe of North America, for example, young girls are often told the story of the White Buffalo Calf Woman , who is a spiritual figure that protects young girls from the whims of men.

  4. 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.

  5. Narrative - Wikipedia

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    Due to indigenous narratives leaving room for open-ended interpretation, native stories often engage children in the storytelling process so that they can make their own meaning and explanations within the story. This promotes holistic thinking among native children, which works toward merging an individual and world identity.

  6. Joseph Campbell - Wikipedia

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    The Hero's Journey was the story of the man or woman who, through great suffering, reached an experience of the eternal source and returned with gifts powerful enough to set their society free. As this story spread through space and evolved through time, it was broken down into various local forms ( masks ), depending on the social structures ...

  7. The Overstory - Wikipedia

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    The Overstory is a novel by American author Richard Powers, published in 2018 by W. W. Norton & Company.The book follows nine Americans whose unique life experiences with trees bring them together to address the destruction of forests.

  8. Summary of Decameron tales - Wikipedia

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    The story of the pear tree, best known to English-speaking readers from The Canterbury Tales, also originates from Persia in the Bahar-Danush, in which the husband climbs a date tree instead of a pear tree. The story could have arrived in Europe through the One Thousand and One Nights, or perhaps the version in book VI of the Masnavi by Rumi.

  9. The Godson (short story) - Wikipedia

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    "The Godson" ("Крестник"; Romanized as "Krestnik" [1]) is a short story by Leo Tolstoy published in 1886. Inessa Medzhibovskaya, professor of English at New School for Social Research, describes the short story as the tale of a godson who is forbidden to open a certain sealed room in his godfather's palace, but then opens it and is banished, leading to his need for redemption.