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  2. The Tell-Tale Heart - Wikipedia

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    V. H. Belvadi's 2012 short film, Telltale, credits Poe's "The Tell-tale Heart" as its inspiration and uses some dialog from the original work. Poe's Tell-Tale Heart: The Game, is a 2013 mobile game adaptation in which players enact the protagonist's actions to recreate Poe's story on Google Play [36] and Apple iOS.

  3. List of story structures - Wikipedia

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    The Turn of the Play: The action of one or more of the characters which sets the course of events moving towards the crisis or climax. The Steps of Action, leading to climax (sometimes called Rising Action): A. B. C. etc. The Decisive Point of Action. Something takes place which makes it impossible for the "rising action" to go further.

  4. Short story - Wikipedia

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    As a concentrated, concise form of narrative and descriptive prose fiction, the short story has been theorised about through the traditional elements of dramatic structure: exposition (the introduction of setting, situation, and main characters), complication (the event that introduces the conflict), rising action, crisis (the decisive moment ...

  5. Three-act structure - Wikipedia

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    The first act is usually used for exposition, to establish the main characters, their relationships, and the world they live in.Later in the first act, a dynamic, on-screen incident occurs, known as the inciting incident, or catalyst, that confronts the main character (the protagonist), and whose attempts to deal with this incident lead to a second and more dramatic situation, known as the ...

  6. Story structure - Wikipedia

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    Story structure or narrative structure is the recognizable or comprehensible way in which a narrative's different elements are unified, including in a particularly chosen order and sometimes specifically referring to the ordering of the plot: the narrative series of events, though this can vary based on culture.

  7. The Tell-Tale Heart (1953 American film) - Wikipedia

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    The Tell-Tale Heart is a 1953 American animated psychological horror short film produced by UPA, directed by Ted Parmelee, and narrated by James Mason.The screenplay by Bill Scott and Fred Grable is based on the 1843 short story of the same name by Edgar Allan Poe.

  8. The Avenging Conscience - Wikipedia

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    Scene from The Avenging Conscience. A young man (Henry B. Walthall) interested in the works of Edgar Allan Poe, falls in love with a beautiful woman (Blanche Sweet), but he is prevented by the uncle (Spottiswoode Aitken) that raised him since childhood from pursuing her.

  9. Climax (narrative) - Wikipedia

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    Death of Caesar, the climax of Shakespeare's play, Julius Caesar. The climax (from Ancient Greek κλῖμαξ (klîmax) 'staircase, ladder') or turning point of a narrative work is its point of highest tension and drama, or it is the time when the action starts during which the solution is given. [1] [2] The climax of a story is a literary ...