This week, the guys look at narrative structure with regards to craft. They talk about several key terms and give some amazing contemporary examples. Tune in now to here this discussion between two educated individuals.

KEY TERMS:

Mimesis: What should fiction represent? Is it a mirror? A reality or truth?

Diegesis: The act of telling the story.

Story: the order of the events A-Z as they happen within the universe of the story. As it unfolds, the narrative.

Plot: The specific arrangement of events to draw out the most emotional impact

Analepsis: flashback

Prolepsis: flashforward

Summary: Covers a relatively long period of time in a short space within a story, or glosses over habitual events.

Scene: deals with events in real time. Includes character actions and discourse. Used for confrontation, turning points, and crises.

Time Signature: the confusion of habitual detail and dynamic detail as noticed in free indirect style. EX. someone yawning as a street sweeper makes its weekly pass.

In media res: in the middle of the action.

Back story: any information about the past, occurring before the plot begins, that is necessary to make the story coherent.

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