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  2. Quinn Martin's Tales of the Unexpected - Wikipedia

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    The story involving the character then unfolds, with the character facing a horrific situation that ends with an unexpected twist. At the conclusion of the episode, Conrad returns with another voice-over in which he explains the episode ' s "sting" or twist, and then applies the story to the general subject first broached after the opening credits.

  3. Roman Fever - Wikipedia

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    "Roman Fever" is a short story by American writer Edith Wharton. It was first published in Liberty magazine on November 10, 1934. [ 1 ] A revised and expanded version of the story was published in Wharton's 1936 short story collection The World Over.

  4. Poetic justice - Wikipedia

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    Poetic justice, also called poetic irony, is a literary device with which ultimately virtue is rewarded and misdeeds are punished. In modern literature, [ 1 ] it is often accompanied by an ironic twist of fate related to the character's own action, hence the name poetic irony.

  5. List of narrative techniques - Wikipedia

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    Twelve kinds of ochi are codified and recognized. The earlier kobanashi was a short comical vignette ending with an ochi. Plot twist: Unexpected change ("twist") in the direction or expected outcome of the plot. See also twist ending. An early example is the Arabian Nights tale "The Three Apples". A locked chest found by a fisherman contains a ...

  6. A Twist in the Tale (short story collection) - Wikipedia

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    It is set in Canada and starts in Benjamin's high school years. Benjamin, a Jew, falls in love with Christina, a German girl whose father is anti-Semitic, and had fought under the Nazis—for which he had been awarded the Iron Cross. As their forbidden romance grows, Christina becomes pregnant by Benjamin.

  7. List of story structures - Wikipedia

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    List of story structures. A story structure, narrative structure, or dramatic structure (also known as a dramaturgical structure) is the structure of a dramatic work such as a book, play, or film. There are different kinds of narrative structures worldwide, which have been hypothesized by critics, writers, and scholars over time.

  8. Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption - Wikipedia

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    1982. Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption is a realist novella by Stephen King. It was first published in 1982 by Viking Press in his collection Different Seasons. It was later included in the 2009 collection Stephen King Goes to the Movies. The plot follows former bank vice president Andy Dufresne, who is wrongly convicted of murdering his ...

  9. The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations - Wikipedia

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    The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations. The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations is a descriptive list which was first proposed by Georges Polti in 1895 to categorize every dramatic situation that might occur in a story or performance. [1] Polti analyzed classical Greek texts, plus classical and contemporaneous French works.