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  2. 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 ...

  3. Improvisational theatre - Wikipedia

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    Improvisational theatre. Improvisational theatre, often called improvisation or improv, is the form of theatre, often comedy, in which most or all of what is performed is unplanned or unscripted, created spontaneously by the performers. In its purest form, the dialogue, action, story, and characters are created collaboratively by the players as ...

  4. List of story structures - Wikipedia

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    List of story structures. A story structure, narrative structure, or dramatic structure (also known as a dramaturgical structure) is the structure of a dramatic work such as a book, play, or film. There are different kinds of narrative structures worldwide, which have been hypothesized by critics, writers, and scholars over time.

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  6. Story structure - Wikipedia

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    Definition. Story is a sequence of events, which can be true or fictitious, that appear in prose, verse or script, designed to amuse or inform an audience. [1] Story structure is a way to organize the story's elements into a recognizable sequence. It has been shown to influence how the brain organizes information. [2]

  7. Samuel Beckett - Wikipedia

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    Samuel Barclay Beckett (/ ˈbɛkɪt / ⓘ; 13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish novelist, dramatist, short story writer, theatre director, poet, and literary translator. His literary and theatrical work features bleak, impersonal, and tragicomic experiences of life, often coupled with black comedy and nonsense.

  8. Shakespeare's plays - Wikipedia

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    Shakespeare's plays are a canon of approximately 39 dramatic works written by the English poet, playwright, and actor William Shakespeare. The exact number of plays as well as their classifications as tragedy, history, comedy, or otherwise is a matter of scholarly debate. Shakespeare's plays are widely regarded as among the greatest in the ...

  9. Plot (narrative) - Wikipedia

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    Plot (narrative) Plot is the cause‐and‐effect sequence of main events in a story. [1] Story events are numbered chronologically while red plot events are a subset connected logically by "so". In a literary work, film, or other narrative, the plot is the sequence of events in which each event affects the next one through the principle of ...