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Docudrama. Docudrama (or documentary drama) is a genre of television and film, which features dramatized re-enactments of actual events. [1] It is described as a hybrid of documentary and drama and "a fact-based representation of real event". [2]
Knock (short story) " Knock " is a science fiction short story by American writer Fredric Brown. It begins with a piece of Flash fiction based on the following passage by Thomas Bailey Aldrich : Imagine all human beings swept off the face of the earth, excepting one man. Imagine this man in some vast city, New York or London.
Two Sentence Horror Stories is an American anthology horror television series. It was acquired by The CW for an airing in the U.S. in mid-2019 and premiered on August 8, 2019, after being originally set up at CW Seed. In May 2020, The CW renewed the series for a second season that premiered on January 12, 2021.
A narrative technique (known among literary fictional narratives as a literary technique, literary device, or fictional device) is any of several specific methods the creator of a narrative uses to convey what they want —in other words, a strategy used when planning and creating a narrative structure to relay information to the audience and particularly to develop the narrative, usually in ...
Madol Doova ( Sinhala: මඩොල් දූව is a children's novel and coming-of-age story written by Sri Lankan writer Martin Wickramasinghe and first published in 1947. The book recounts the misadventures of Upali Giniwella and his friends on the Southern coast of Sri Lanka during the 1890s. It later describes the efforts of Upali and his ...
A frame story is a literary device that acts as a convenient conceit to organize a set of smaller narratives, either devised by the author or taken from a previous stock of popular tales, slightly altered by the author for the purpose of the longer narrative. Sometimes a story within the main narrative encapsulates some aspect of the framing ...
A Tale of Two Cities. A Tale of Two Cities is a historical novel published in 1859 by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. The novel tells the story of the French Doctor Manette, his 18-year-long imprisonment in the Bastille in Paris, and his release to live in London with his daughter Lucie whom he ...
William Shakespeare's first plays were written in the conventional style of the day. He wrote them in a stylised language that does not always spring naturally from the needs of the characters or the drama. [1] The poetry depends on extended, elaborate metaphors and conceits, and the language is often rhetorical —written for actors to declaim ...