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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. Reading Like a Writer - Wikipedia

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    Chapter Eight: Details; Using examples from literature, Prose explains how one or two important details can leave a more memorable impression on the reader than a barrage of description. Chapter Nine: Gestures; Prose argues that gestures performed by fictional characters should not be "physical clichés" but illuminations that move the narrative.

  4. How to Read a Book - Wikipedia

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    How to Read a Book is a book by the American philosopher Mortimer J. Adler. Originally published in 1940, it was heavily revised for a 1972 edition, co-authored by Adler with editor Charles Van Doren. The 1972 revision gives guidelines for critically reading good and great books of any tradition.

  5. Chapter (books) - Wikipedia

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    A chapter (capitula in Latin; sommaires in French) is any of the main thematic divisions within a writing of relative length, such as a book of prose, poetry, or law. A book with chapters (not to be confused with the chapter book) may have multiple chapters that respectively comprise discrete topics or themes. In each case, chapters can be ...

  6. Summary of Decameron tales - Wikipedia

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    This article contains summaries and commentaries of the 100 stories within Giovanni Boccaccio's The Decameron. Each story of the Decameron begins with a short heading explaining the plot of the story. The 1903 J. M. Rigg translation headings are used in many of these summaries. Commentary on the tale itself follows.

  7. Chesapeake (novel) - Wikipedia

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    The book is divided into 14 separate chapters with two sections each. The first part provides a key date and describes the background behind the arrival of a person or thing (i.e., a family of Canada geese in Voyage Eight and floodwaters in Voyage Eleven) to the Delmarva Peninsula area, while the second section provides a thematic name and describes how the new arrivals interact with places ...

  8. The Adventures of Pinocchio - Wikipedia

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    The story stopped after nearly 4 months and 8 episodes at Chapter 15, but by popular demand from readers, the episodes were resumed on 16 February 1882. [1] In February 1883, the story was published in a single book. Since then, Pinocchio has been one of the most popular children's books and been critically acclaimed. [1]

  9. Daniel 1 - Wikipedia

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    An interesting feature of the book is that the accounts of chapters 2–6 and the visions in chapter 7 are in Aramaic (after the first few lines of chapter 2 in Hebrew). However, the visions of chapters 8–12 are in Hebrew, as is the introduction, chapter 1. [11]

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