In film theory, genre ( or ) refers to the method based on similarities in the narrative elements from which films are constructed.

A heroic couplet is a traditional form for English poetry, commonly used for epic and narrative poetry ; it refers to poems constructed from a sequence of rhyming pairs of iambic pentameter lines.

Richard Ned Lebow terms Thucydides " the last of the tragedians ", stating that " Thucydides drew heavily on epic poetry and tragedy to construct his history, which not surprisingly is also constructed as a narrative.

The jointly constructed narrative assigns primary moral responsibility for role performance problems to the departing member and interprets organizational permission as commitment to extraordinary moral standards and preservation of public trust.

The narrative constructed jointly by the whistle blower and regulatory agency is one which depicts the whistle-blower as motivated by personal conscience and the organization by defense of the public interest.

Such elements include the essential idea of narrative structure, with identifiable beginnings, middles and endings, or exposition-development-climax-resolution-denouement, normally constructed into coherent plot lines ; a strong focus on temporality, which includes retention of the past, attention to present action, and protention / future anticipation ; a substantial focus on characters and characterization which is " arguably the most important single component of the novel "; a given heterogloss of different voices dialogically at play – " the sound of the human voice, or many voices, speaking in a variety of accents, rhythms and registers "; possesses a narrator or narrator-like voice, which by definition " addresses " and " interacts with " reading audiences ( see Reader Response theory ); communicates with a Wayne Booth-esque rhetorical thrust, a dialectic process of interpretation, which is at times beneath the surface, conditioning a plotted narrative, and other at other times much more visible, " arguing " for and against various positions ; relies substantially on now-standard aesthetic figuration, particularly including the use of metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche and irony ( see Hayden White, Metahistory for expansion of this idea ); is often enmeshed in intertextuality, with copious connections, references, allusions, similarities, parallels, etc.

Rather than a mistake or flaw on Pynchon's part, this narrative structure is constructed to be inexact in a ( perhaps paradoxically ) precise fashion ; it demonstrates the fragility, rather than the secure foundations, of any historical record, and indeed, history itself.

Such elements include the essential idea of narrative structure, with identifiable beginnings, middles and ends, or exposition-development-climax-denouement, with important inciting incidents, normally constructed into coherent plot lines ; a strong focus on temporality that includes retention of the past, attention to present action and protention / future anticipation ; a substantial focus on characters and characterization which is " arguably the most important single component of the novel " ( David Lodge The Art of Fiction 67 ); a given hetergloss of different voices dialogically at play, " the sound of the human voice, or many voices, speaking in a variety of accents, rhythms and registers " ( Lodge The Art of Fiction 97 ; see also the theory of Mikhail Bakhtin for expansion of this idea ); possesses a narrator or narrator-like voice, which by definition " addresses " and " interacts with " reading audiences ( see Reader Response theory ); communicates with a Wayne Booth-esque rhetorical thrust, a dialectic process of interpretation, which is at times beneath the surface, conditioning a plotted narrative, and other at other times much more visible, " arguing " for and against various positions ; relies substantially on now-standard aesthetic figuration, particularly including the use of metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche and irony ( see Hayden White, Metahistory for expansion of this idea ); is often enmeshed in intertextuality, with copious connections, references, allusions, similarities, parallels, etc.

Because stories are complex, the story ’ s truth is constructed and the researcher is subjective, it is necessary to determine what the assessment criteria should be for narrative inquiry research.

The French musicologist Jean-Jacques Nattiez contends that ‘ the narrative, strictly speaking, is not in the music, but in the plot imagined and constructed by the listeners ’.

George Kilpatrick and separately Michael Patella state that a comparison of the Nativity stories of Luke and Matthew show common elements in terms of the virgin births, the birth at Bethlehem and the upbringing at Nazareth and that although there are differences in the accounts of the Nativity in Luke and Matthew, a general narrative may be constructed by combining the two.

Although made of stone, they were carved and constructed in the manner of wood and the gateways were covered with narrative sculptures.

Since the ending is the point at which a narrative ends, a " happy ending " is constructed in a way so as to imply that, after the conclusion of the narrative, the lives of all the " good " characters will be filled with happiness and that any unpleasantness they encounter will be negligible.

* Christopher Tolkien's explanation of how he, with the collaboration of future fantasy author Guy Gavriel Kay, constructed Chapter 22 of the Quenta Silmarillion, since none of his father's accounts of this episode were recent enough to fit the narrative in its final form.

Some commentators attributed his followers ' willingness to commit suicide to his skill as a manipulator, while others argued that their willingness was due to their faith in the narrative that he constructed.

Richard Hecht of the University of California, Santa Barbara, echoes this sentiment, arguing that members of the group committed suicide because they believed the narrative that he had constructed, rather than because he psychologically controlled them.

" In addition, " whereas Hollywood filmmakers strove to conceal the constructed nature of their work so that the realistic narrative was wholly dominant, Indian filmmakers made no attempt to conceal the fact that what was shown on the screen was a creation, an illusion, a fiction.

The most common in literature and story-telling in the English, Chinese, Italian, and Portuguese languages ; the events of the plot are depicted as occurring sometime before the current moment or the time at which the narrative was constructed or expressed to an audience.

Secondly, he constructed a narrative from Creation to his present day, again similar to Herodotus or the Hebrew Bible.

With the occasional intervention of the author as a character ( as in the earlier Cárcel de Amor ( Prison of Love ) by Diego de San Pedro ), its narrative structure ( divided in 3 parts and 66 mamotretos ) goes on the line begun by Celestina and the narration constructed on the basis of dialogues:

This dichotomy generates a rich range of metaphors, but perhaps this novel's most important attribute is the way in which both worlds are constructed, and their importance as " chronotopes " in the narrative.

The government made many efforts for cultural development: the National Museum of Korea, Seoul Arts Center, National Museum of Contemporary Art were all constructed during this time.

Gender ambiguity deals with having the freedom to choose, manipulate and create a personal niche within any defined socially constructed code of conduct while gender fluidity is outlawing all the rules of cultural gender assignment.

On the other hand, particularly in discussions of objectivity that have feet in both metaphysics and epistemology, philosophical discussions of " reality " often concern the ways in which reality is, or is not, in some way dependent upon ( or, to use fashionable jargon, " constructed " out of ) mental and cultural factors such as perceptions, beliefs, and other mental states, as well as cultural artifacts, such as religions and political movements, on up to the vague notion of a common cultural world view, or < em lang =" de "> Weltanschauung </ em >.

In England, Anne shifted her energies from factional politics to patronage of the arts and constructed her own magnificent court, hosting one of the richest cultural salons in Europe.

More recent decades have seen factories constructed in the city by Sony ( now closed ) and Michelin Corporations, together with the emergence of a local arts and music scene complete with an art museum, several theaters, symphony orchestra, dance troupe and other cultural amenities.

Southeastern's Columbia Theatre, constructed in 1928 and renovated in the 1990s for $ 5. 6 million, is a significant cultural venue in Hammond's Historic District.

The new literary language was constructed on an already well-established cultural infrastructure, appropriating the functions, conventions, and status of Aramaic, the literary language of pagan Georgia, and the new national religion.

During this period, lots of schools, hospitals, cultural and entertainment facilities were constructed, including Lenin ’ s Palace, Kazakhstan Hotel, and the “ Medeo ” sports complex.

By the deliberate efforts of post-revolutionary governments the " Mestizo identity " was constructed as the base of the modern Mexican national identity, through a process of cultural synthesis referred to as mestizaje.

Buildings housing cultural and educational institutions constructed in the Beaux-Arts style would line each outer path or street, on the opposite side of the path or street from the elms.

Image: Kongo. jpg | Kongō Gumi, used to be the world's oldest continuously operating company, constructed several Japan's cultural assets.

Buildings, statues, and memorials are constructed in a scale larger than life as a social / cultural signal that the subject matter is also larger than life.

To this end he addresses basic semiotic processes that take place within perception and provide determinations from which cognitive types can be constructed, with all the cultural baggage that is involved.

The plaza was constructed in 1927 as a place for recreation, political, spiritual and cultural activities.

Such information-rich chapters were often constructed from many short paragraphs, sentences, or fragments thereof — pulled from sources such as slogans, snatches of conversation, advertising text, songs, extracts from newspapers and books, and other cultural detritus.

At Wynford Drive and the Don Valley Parkway, a new $ 300 million cultural project is being constructed on.

With the creation of the university's central building ( inaugurated 1880 ) and the adjacent newly constructed facilities for chemistry and physics a new cultural center was established on what was then the border of the city.

The hastily constructed wartime development ’ s social and cultural mores had little in common with Portland as a whole.

In orthodox eastern Europe bell ringing also had a strong cultural significance ( Russian Orthodox bell ringing ), and churches were constructed with bell towers ( see also List of tall Orthodox Bell towers ).

Ecuador was inhabited with numerous civilizations which constructed the ethnic cultural background of Ecuador years before the Inca Empire.

It was constructed in 1969 as a cultural and sport center, but was later revitalized and expanded for the 1984 Winter Olympic Games.

This cultural response to a constructed niche allows for a change in environment and a lack of change in genetics.