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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 ...
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.
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 ...
Two Gentlemen of Verona by Angelica Kauffman (1789). The Two Gentlemen of Verona is a comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1589 and 1593.It is considered by some to be Shakespeare's first play, and is often seen as showing his first tentative steps in laying out some of the themes and motifs with which he would later deal in more detail; for example, it is the ...
A romance novel or romantic novel is a genre fiction novel that primary focuses on the relationship and romantic love between two people, typically with an emotionally satisfying and optimistic ending. Authors who have contributed to the development of this genre include Samuel Richardson, Jane Austen, and Charlotte Brontë .
Don Quixote and his sidekick Sancho Panza, as illustrated by Gustave Doré: the characters' contrasting qualities are reflected here even in their physical appearances. In any narrative, a foil is a character who contrasts with another character, typically, a character who contrasts with the protagonist, in order to better highlight or differentiate certain qualities of the protagonist.
Theme (narrative) In contemporary literary studies, a theme is a central topic, subject, or message within a narrative. [1] Themes can be divided into two categories: a work's thematic concept is what readers "think the work is about" and its thematic statement being "what the work says about the subject". [2]
Pace (narrative) In literature, pace or pacing is the speed at which a story is told—not necessarily the speed at which the story takes place. [1] [2] [3] It is an essential element of storytelling that plays a significant role in maintaining reader interest, building tension, and conveying the desired emotional impact. [4]