According to Lawrence Stone, narrative has traditionally been the main rhetorical device used by historians.

Events in the main sequence of the Odyssey ( excluding Odysseus ' embedded narrative of his wanderings ) take place in the Peloponnese and in what are now called the Ionian Islands.

As a concentrated form of narrative prose fiction, the short story has been theorised through the traditional elements of dramatic structure: exposition ( the introduction of setting, situation and main characters ), complication ( the event that introduces the conflict ), rising action, crisis ( the decisive moment for the protagonist and his commitment to a course of action ), climax ( the point of highest interest in terms of the conflict and the point with the most action ) and resolution ( the point when the conflict is resolved ).

The narrator, who occasionally interrupts the narrative flow with asides ( a device common to both children's and Anglo-Saxon literature ), has his own linguistic style separate from those of the main characters.

The narrative is non-linear and the main characters are examined in depth and detail.

The main body of the narrative lacks statements of Rama's divinity, and identifications of Rama with Vishnu are rare and subdued even in the later parts of the text.

Delderfield, in the person of Powlett-Jones, appears to have a very good grasp of Margaret's life and the Wars of the Roses, and the content and development of the book give us an entertaining sub-plot to the book's main narrative.

It produces a new world in which the main elements have not so many narrative functions as they have their own aesthetic value, related with the eye that is watching them and not with the action they are coming from.

There are also two " Intermission " sections, each some six or eight pages long, taking the form of lists of provocative phrases and aphorisms not directly related to the main narrative.

The novel is divided into three parts, following a third-person omniscient narrative with no main character.

A protagonist ( from the Greek protagonistes, " one who plays the first part, chief actor ") is the main character ( the central or primary personal figure ) of a literary, theatrical, cinematic, or musical narrative, which ends up in conflict because of the antagonist and with whom the audience is intended to most identify.

A number of biblical scholars suspect that the Joseph tribes ( including Benjamin ) represent a second migration of Israelites to Israel, later than the main tribes, specifically that it was only the Joseph tribes which went to Egypt and returned, while the main Israelite tribes simply emerged as a subculture from the Canaanites and had remained in Canaan throughout ; in the narrative in the Book of Joshua, which concerns the arrival in ( and conquest of ) Canaan by the Israelites from Egypt, the leader is Joshua, who was a member of the Ephraim tribe.

Spliced throughout the main narrative are a variety of " slice of life " segments detailing the lives of the sideshow performers.

At Chartres, nearly all of the 176 windows were filled with equally dense stained glass, creating a relatively dark but richly coloured interior in which the light filtering through the myriad narrative and symbolic windows was the main source of illumination.

Chapter I. 6 digresses from the narrative in order to present the main and minor characters in more detail, in the form of twelve riddles and answers.

The book even includes footnotes and letters that tell their own stories only vaguely related to the events in the main narrative of the book, and even includes footnotes for fake books.

These will not affect the main narrative, but might provide Ryo with useful items or further develop characters and storyline for the player.

Each narrator's text is printed in a distinct font, making it easier for the reader to follow the occasionally challenging format of the novel ( Truant in Courier New in the footnotes, and the main narrative in Times New Roman in the American version ).

References to Narasimha are found in a wide variety of the Puranic scriptures, with seventeen versions of the main narrative, some in more detail than others.

In his development for Auteur Theory, François Truffaut lists Bresson among the main few directors the term " Auteur " can genuinely be applied to, and later names him as one of the only examples of directors who could approach even the so-called " unfilmable " scenes, using the film narrative at its disposal.

Though Titus and Steerpike are often considered the main characters, they share the narrative with many of the other denizens of the castle.

Although Losey's films can in the main be described as naturalistic, The Servant's hybridization of Losey's signature Baroque style, film noir, naturalism, and expressionism and both Accident's and The Go-Between's radical cinematography, use of montage, voice over, and musical score amount to a sophisticated construction of cinematic time and narrative perspective which edges this work in the direction of neorealist cinema.

The Unity of Action-This is the one Unity that Goldsmith does not rigorously follow ; there is the inclusion of the Constance-Hastings eloping sub-plot that distracts from the main narrative of the play.

Seeds are a main source of starch for industrial and food use in many parts of the world.

The vast majority of energy is produced with imported fuel, including gas and nuclear fuel ( for its one nuclear power plant ) from Russia ; the main domestic energy source is hydroelectric.

It is named after its scholarly journal Annales d ' histoire économique et sociale, which remains the main source of scholarship, along with many books and monographs.

Saxo Grammaticus ' Gesta Danorum was not finished until after the death of Absalon, but Absalon was one of the chief heroic figures of the chronicle, which was to be the main source of knowledge about early Danish history.

The main source for the affair is a mythology à clef by Synesius of Cyrene, Aegyptus sive de providentia, ( 400 ) an Egyptianising allegory that embodies a covert account of the events, the exact interpretation of which continues to baffle scholars.

The chromaffin cells of the medulla, named for their characteristic brown staining with chromic acid salts, are the body's main source of the circulating catecholamines epinephrine and norepinephrine.

The British introduced sugar cane which was to become the main crop and source of foreign trade, and slaves were brought from Africa to work on the sugar cane plantations.

Sasso was the main source of European borax from 1827 to 1872, at which date American sources replaced it.

Marine organisms are the main source of organobromine compounds.

Bauxite is an aluminium ore and is the main source of aluminium.

In the 20th century the first part of the prologue ( chapters 1: 1-2: 5 ) and the two parts of the epilogue ( 17-21 ) were commonly seen as miscellaneous collections of fragments tacked on to the main text, and the second part of the prologue ( 2: 6-3: 6 ) as an introduction composed expressly for the book ; this view has been challenged in the latter decades of the century, and there is an increasing willingness to see Judges as the work of a single individual, working by carefully selecting, reworking and positioning his source material to introduce and conclude his themes.

Passengers replaced freight as the main source of business, and one third of the network was closed by the Beeching Axe of the 1960s.

Babur wrote his memoirs and these form the main source for details of his life.

In Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum ( Deeds of Bishops of the Hamburg Church ), Adam of Bremen mentions Birka many times, and the book is the main source of information on the city.

The main difficulty with this interpretation continues to be the potential source of structural timber, though bog and driftwood may have been plentiful sources.

The main source for the Greco-Persian Wars is the Greek historian Herodotus.

* Dexippus, Scythica, ( fragments of a lost work which is the main known source of all later Roman and Byzantine historians and chronographers ), in Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker, entry 100, ed.

: " From the tenth to the twelfth century Byzantium was the main source of inspiration for the West.

The main source of our knowledge of the importance of filial piety is the Classic of Filial Piety, a work attributed to Confucius and his son but almost certainly written in the 3rd century BCE.

The Analects, the main source of the Confucianism of Confucius, actually has little to say on the matter of filial piety and some sources believe the concept was focused on by later thinkers as a response to Mohism.

* The main source for Columbanus's life is recorded by Jonas of Bobbio, an Italian monk who entered the monastery in Bobbio in 618, three years after the saint's death ; Jonas wrote the life c. 643.

The main source of information about Columba's life is the Vita Columbae by Adomnán ( also known as Eunan ), the ninth Abbot of Iona, who died in 704.

The main source of injuries comes from stunting, also known as pyramids.

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is the other main source that bears on this period, in particular in an entry for the year 827 that records a list of the kings who bore the title " bretwalda ", or " Britain-ruler ".

The main local source from the period is the Chronicle of the Kings of Alba, a list of kings from Cináed mac Ailpín ( died 858 ) to Cináed mac Maíl Coluim ( died 995 ).