Piece of Miraculous Literature: Modern Story Telling
Introduction For those who study modern literature, there are many known " Literary Elements " (like plot, theme, character, pace and tone, ...) and " Literary Techniques/Devices " ( Flashback , Cliffhanger , Narrative hook , ...) that was developed over time. With regards to story telling, many structural principles of modern storytellers can be explained using analysis based on Aristotle Poetry, where the story is all about a "knot" that get tied or revealed, the play has two parts: complication and unraveling with respect to the "knot". Freytag's Analysis of a store, proposed in 1863 by Gustav Freytag (a German writer) which is a model of an arc of 5 parts: exposition/introduction rising action (rise) climax falling action (return or fall) denouement (catastrophe) Although it's advocated for modern story telling, it's still lakes more advanced structures used by modern story tellers as we are going to see later.