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  2. List of writing genres - Wikipedia

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    List of writing genres. Writing genres (more commonly known as literary genres) are categories that distinguish literature (including works of prose, poetry, drama, hybrid forms, etc.) based on some set of stylistic criteria. Sharing literary conventions, they typically consist of similarities in theme/topic, style, tropes, and storytelling ...

  3. Drama - Wikipedia

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    Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance: a play, opera, mime, ballet, etc., performed in a theatre, or on radio or television. Considered as a genre of poetry in general, the dramatic mode has been contrasted with the epic and the lyrical modes ever since Aristotle's Poetics (c. 335 BC)—the earliest work of dramatic theory.

  4. List of Philippine drama series - Wikipedia

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    110. Anak ni Waray vs. Anak ni Biday ( Hidden Lies ) GMA Network. 62. Ang sa Iyo ay Akin (The Law of Revenge) Kapamilya Channel. 155. Ate ng Ate Ko (Sister of My Sister) TV5.

  5. Short story - Wikipedia

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    Short stories date back to oral storytelling traditions which originally produced epics such as the Ramayana, the Mahabharata, and Homer 's Iliad and Odyssey. Oral narratives were often told in the form of rhyming or rhythmic verse, often including recurring sections or, in the case of Homer, Homeric epithets. Such stylistic devices often acted ...

  6. Story within a story - Wikipedia

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    Stories within stories can be used simply to enhance entertainment for the reader or viewer, or can act as examples to teach lessons to other characters. [2] The inner story often has a symbolic and psychological significance for the characters in the outer story. There is often some parallel between the two stories, and the fiction of the ...

  7. History of theatre - Wikipedia

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    The majority of actors in these plays were drawn from the local population. For example, at Valenciennes in 1547, more than 100 roles were assigned to 72 actors. Plays were staged on pageant wagon stages, which were platforms mounted on wheels used to move scenery. Often providing their own costumes, amateur performers in England were ...

  8. Plot (narrative) - Wikipedia

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    Plot (narrative) Plot is the cause‐and‐effect sequence of main events in a story. [1] The story events are numbered chronologically; the red plot events are also connected logically by "so". In a literary work, film, or other narrative, the plot is the sequence of events in which each event affects the next one through the principle of ...

  9. Backstory - Wikipedia

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    The original Star Wars film and its first two sequels are examples of a work with a preconceived backstory, which was later released as the "prequel" second set of three films. Recollection. Recollection is the fiction-writing mode whereby a character calls something to mind, or remembers it. A character's memory plays a role for conveying ...