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  2. List of coming-of-age stories - Wikipedia

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    Coming-of-age stories focus on the growth of a protagonist from childhood to adulthood, although "coming of age" is a genre for a variety of media, including literature, theatre, film, television and video games .

  3. Drama (film and television) - Wikipedia

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    All forms of cinema or television that involve fictional stories are forms of drama in the broader sense if their storytelling is achieved by means of actors who represent ( mimesis) characters. In this broader sense, drama is a mode distinct from novels, short stories, and narrative poetry or songs. [3] In the modern era, before the birth of cinema or television, "drama" within theatre was a ...

  4. List of genres - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of genres of literature and entertainment ( film, television, music, and video games ), excluding genres in the visual arts .

  5. It's a Good Life - Wikipedia

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    Life. " It's a Good Life " is a short story by American writer Jerome Bixby, written in 1953. In 1970, the Science Fiction Writers of America selected it for The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One, as one of the 20 best short stories in science fiction published prior to the Nebula Award. The story was first published in Star Science ...

  6. All the world's a stage - Wikipedia

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    " All the world's a stage " is the phrase that begins a monologue from William Shakespeare 's pastoral comedy As You Like It, spoken by the melancholy Jaques in Act II Scene VII Line 139. The speech compares the world to a stage and life to a play and catalogues the seven stages of a man's life, sometimes referred to as the seven ages of man .

  7. Frame story - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  8. Slice of life - Wikipedia

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    Slice of life is a depiction of mundane experiences in art and entertainment. [1] In theater, slice of life refers to naturalism, while in literary parlance it is a narrative technique in which a seemingly arbitrary sequence of events in a character's life is presented, often lacking plot development, conflict and exposition, as well as often having an open ending.

  9. YouTube star Shane Dawson reveals how his recent book ... - AOL

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    Nowadays, it's a little different because I do daily videos. Once in awhile I'll do a sketch or a short film, and that took me a long time to make and a lot of money to make.