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  2. Story within a story - Wikipedia

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    An example of an interconnected inner story is "The Mad Trist" in Edgar Allan Poe's Fall of the House of Usher, where through somewhat mystical means the narrator's reading of the story within a story influences the reality of the story he has been telling, so that what happens in "The Mad Trist" begins happening in "The Fall of the House of ...

  3. Magical realism - Wikipedia

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    Though often used to refer to works of magical realism, fabulism incorporates fantasy elements into reality, using myths and fables to critique the exterior world and offer direct allegorical interpretations. Austrian-American child psychologist Bruno Bettelheim suggested that fairy tales have psychological merit. They are used to translate ...

  4. Symbolic convergence theory - Wikipedia

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    The role of consciousness. Within fantasy chains, three phases keep the chains going. They are consciousness-creating, consciousness-raising, and consciousness-sustaining. In the first phase, people come to create a commonality among their group. If the groups share this common fantasy, consciousness-raising will often fall in line next.

  5. Dream world (plot device) - Wikipedia

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    However, other authors have used the dreaming process as a way of accessing a world which, within the context of the fiction, holds as much consistency and continuity as physical reality. [2] The use of "dream frames" to contain a fantasy world, and so explain away its marvels, has been criticized and has become much less prevalent. [3]

  6. 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.

  7. Contemporary fantasy - Wikipedia

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    The contemporary fantasy and low fantasy genres can overlap as both are set in the real world. There are differences, however. Low fantasies are set in the real world but not necessarily in the modern age, in which case they would not be contemporary fantasy. There is a considerable overlap between contemporary fantasy and urban fantasy. [3]

  8. The Most Common Sexual Fantasies and How to Fulfill ... - AOL

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    A few examples that she often fields content requests for are scenes between a princess and pirate, a secretary and her boss, and a boss lady with her hunky new hire. Threesomes or “moresomes”

  9. Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth

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    Jennifer, Hecate is narrated by the protagonist Elizabeth in the title. She has moved into a big apartment building in a town where almost everyone lives in a house. [4] She doesn't yet have any friends when she meets Jennifer on her way back to school after lunch on Halloween day.