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  2. A Good Man Is Hard to Find (short story) - Wikipedia

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    Publication date. 1953. " A Good Man Is Hard to Find " is a Southern gothic short story first published in 1953 by author Flannery O'Connor who, in her own words, described it as "the story of a family of six which, on its way driving to Florida [from Georgia ], is slaughtered by an escaped convict who calls himself the Misfit". [2]

  3. Dialogue in writing - Wikipedia

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    Contents. Dialogue in writing. This article is about dialogue in literature. For other uses, see Dialogue (disambiguation). Dialogue, in literature, is a verbal exchange between two or more characters (but can also involve strategic use of silence). [1] If there is only one character talking aloud, it is a monologue .

  4. 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 ...

  5. Rhetorical modes - Wikipedia

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    Works. Subfields. Related. v. t. e. The rhetorical modes (also known as modes of discourse) are a broad traditional classification of the major kinds of formal and academic writing (including speech-writing) by their rhetorical (persuasive) purpose: narration, description, exposition, and argumentation. First attempted [clarification needed] by ...

  6. List of narrative techniques - Wikipedia

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    A narrative technique (also, in fiction, a fictional device) is any of several specific methods the creator of a narrative uses [1] —in other words, a strategy applied in the delivering of a narrative to relay information to the audience and to make the narrative more complete, complex, or engaging. Some scholars also call such a technique a ...

  7. A Dialogue Among Clever People - Wikipedia

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    A Dialogue Among Clever People" (AKA: "A Talk Among Leisured People") is a short story by Leo Tolstoy published in 1892. Aylmer Maude was one of the first translators. According to literary critic Robert Ellsberg , in this story, an aristocrat articulates about happiness and concludes that happiness can best be found in the ideal of the ...

  8. Category:Short stories by Leo Tolstoy - Wikipedia

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    Three Days in the Village. Three Deaths. The Three Hermits. The Three Questions. Too Dear! Twenty-Three Tales. The Two Brothers and the Gold. Two Hussars. Two Old Men (story)

  9. Vignette (literature) - Wikipedia

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    Vignette (literature) A vignette ( / vɪnˈjɛt / ⓘ, also / viːnˈ -/) is a French loanword expressing a short and descriptive piece of writing that captures a brief period in time. [1] [2] Vignettes are more focused on vivid imagery and meaning rather than plot. [3]