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  2. Two Sentence Horror Stories - Wikipedia

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    Release. August 8, 2019. ( 2019-08-08) –. February 20, 2022. ( 2022-02-20) 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, [1] after being originally set up at CW Seed. [2] In May 2020, The CW renewed the series for ...

  3. The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations - Wikipedia

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    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. He also analyzed a handful of non-French authors.

  4. Narrative hook - Wikipedia

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    Narrative hook. A narrative hook (or just hook) is a literary technique in the opening of a story that "hooks" the reader's attention so that they will keep on reading. The "opening" may consist of several paragraphs for a short story, or several pages for a novel, but ideally it is the opening sentence in the book. [1] [2]

  5. 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 ...

  6. List of narrative techniques - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  7. It was a dark and stormy night - Wikipedia

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    The Peanuts comic strip character Snoopy, in his imagined persona as the World Famous Author, sometimes begins his novels with the phrase "It was a dark and stormy night." [9] Cartoonist Charles Schulz made Snoopy use this phrase because "it was a cliché, and had been one for a very long time". [10] A book by Schulz, titled Snoopy and "It Was ...

  8. In medias res - Wikipedia

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    A narrative work beginning in medias res ( Classical Latin: [ɪn ˈmɛdɪ.aːs ˈreːs], lit. "into the middle of things") opens in the midst of the plot ( cf. ab ovo, ab initio ). [1] Often, exposition is bypassed and filled in gradually, through dialogue, flashbacks or description of past events. For example, Hamlet begins after the death of ...

  9. Verse drama and dramatic verse - Wikipedia

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    Contents. Verse drama and dramatic verse. Verse drama is any drama written significantly in verse (that is: with line endings) to be performed by an actor before an audience. Although verse drama does not need to be primarily in verse to be considered verse drama, significant portions of the play should be in verse to qualify. [1]