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  2. Exposition (narrative) - Wikipedia

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    Narrative exposition, now often simply exposition, is the insertion of background information within a story or narrative. This information can be about the setting , characters' backstories , prior plot events, historical context, etc. [ 1 ] In literature, exposition appears in the form of expository writing embedded within the narrative.

  3. Rhetorical modes - Wikipedia

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    Examples are the satiric mode, the ironic, the comic, the pastoral, and the didactic. [ 2 ] Frederick Crews uses the term to mean a type of essay and categorizes essays as falling into four types, corresponding to four basic functions of prose: narration , or telling; description , or picturing; exposition , or explaining; and argument , or ...

  4. Actantial model - Wikipedia

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    In structural semantics, the actantial model, also called the actantial narrative schema, is a tool used to analyze the action that takes place in a story, whether real or fictional.

  5. Plot (narrative) - Wikipedia

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    The term plot can also serve as a verb, referring to either the writer's crafting of a plot (devising and ordering story events), or else to a character's planning of future actions in the story. The term plot , however, in common usage (for example, a "film plot") can mean a narrative summary or story synopsis , rather than a specific cause ...

  6. The Seven Basic Plots - Wikipedia

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    For example, novelist and literary critic Adam Mars-Jones wrote, "[Booker] sets up criteria for art, and ends up condemning Rigoletto, The Cherry Orchard, Wagner, Proust, Joyce, Kafka and Lawrence—the list goes on—while praising Crocodile Dundee, E.T. and Terminator 2". [7]

  7. Narrative - Wikipedia

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    Research using narrative methods in the social sciences has been described as still being in its infancy [33] but this perspective has several advantages such as access to an existing, rich vocabulary of analytical terms: plot, genre, subtext, epic, hero/heroine, story arc (e.g., beginning–middle–end), and so on. Another benefit is it ...

  8. Three-act structure - Wikipedia

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    A visual representation of the three-act structure as described by Syd Field in his book Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting. The three-act structure is a model used in narrative fiction that divides a story into three parts (), often called the Setup, the Confrontation, and the Resolution.

  9. List of story structures - Wikipedia

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    A classic example of a U-shaped plot in the Bible is the Parable of the Prodigal Son in Luke 15:11–24. The parable opens at the top of the U with a stable condition but turns downward after the son asks the father for his inheritance and sets out for a "distant country" (Luke 15:13).