| Devices | Types of Interest Sought | ||
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| 1. A Title | Arresting, suggestive, challenging. | ||
2. A Situation (Some feat to be Accomplished, or, Some Course of Conduct to be chosen.) |
Happenings presented to make clear to the reader that the Story Purpose (Accomplishment) or Story Problem, (Decision), calls upon the chief actor to engage at once in action.
The Condition precipitating the Story Situation. Rendered in Presentation Units
or in Author's Interpolations to make clear to the reader that the Accomplishment or Decision can come only when the chief actor has (a) Overcome Difficulty (b) Engaged in conflict with Opposed Forces. (c) Averted Disaster. |
CURIOSITY: A SINGLE DESIRE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT ANYTHING. | BEGINNING |
3. Importance of Story Situation. Intrinsically or Synthetically through foreshadowing. 4. Difficulty. Conflict, Disaster. 5. Unusualness of Story Situation; of Actor's status. 6. Impressions by Contrast. 7. Impressions through unusual conception of the apparently usual, through comparison or imagery. |
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8. Dramatic Interaction of OPPOSING FORCES that clash about immediate purposes in Scenes. This clash brings about Plot crisis at the end of each scene. |
A sertes of Presentation Units in which the character-traits of the different actors should emerge. The attempt to overcome a Difficulty.
The attempt to overcome an Opposed Force, and
The Attempt to Avert Disaster (all foreshadowed in the Beginning) are developed.
Each such attempt causes a crisis or turning-point in the Story Plot. |
SUSTAINED ATTENTION: SUSPENSE AS REGARDS THE OUTCOME OF STRUGGLES. | THE BODY |
9. The Unexpected. 10. The Symbolic Act. 11. Significance. |
Made up of Presentation Unit or Units showing the Conclusive Act of the Plot, by which the Main Actor (or some force acted upon by him) meets the Story Situation.
Plus the significance, ironic or otherwise of the Conclusive Act. (Sometimes shown as a Sequel.)
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A SENSE OF SATISFACTION IN REGARD TO THE OUTCOME OF THE STORY. | THE ENDING |
| 12. Permeating the Whole Story- Originality or charm of phrasing or treatment. | |||