The story was then told using a combination of oral narrative, music, rock art and dance.

The book is presented as a combination of narrative from Weston's diary and dispatches that he transmits to his publication, the mythical Times-Post.

Madame Chrysanthème, a novel of Japanese manners that is a precursor to Madame Butterfly and Miss Saigon ( a combination of narrative and travelog ) was published the same year.

The story was then told using a combination of oral narrative, music, rock art and dance.

Tragedy and comedy, he goes on to explain, are wholly imitative types ; the dithyramb is wholly narrative ; and their combination is found in epic poetry.

Tragedy and comedy, he goes on to explain, are wholly imitative types ; the dithyramb is wholly narrative ; and their combination is found in epic poetry.

Other features found in Menippean satire are different forms of parody and mythological burlesque, a critique of the myths inherited from traditional culture, a rhapsodic nature, a fragmented narrative, the combination of many different targets, and the rapid moving between styles and points of view.

The combination of objective realism, subjective realism, and authorial commentary created a narrative ambiguity in the sense that questions that arise in a film are not answered in the end.

Previous research suggests that the realism of television narratives in combination with individual-level " transportability ," or the ability to adopt a less critical stance toward a narrative, might facilitate cultivation effects ( e. g., Bilandzic & Busselle, 2008 ).

Indeed, it is a combination of the monogatari style practiced by gakybiwa mosobiwa and somyo narrative.

It can be a combination of multiple genres to create a unique narrative or to comment on situations in postmodernity: for example, William S. Burroughs uses science fiction, detective fiction, westerns ; Margaret Atwood uses science fiction and fairy tales ; Umberto Eco uses detective fiction, fairy tales, and science fiction, Derek Pell relies on collage and noir detective, erotica, travel guides, and how-to manuals, and so on.

Borges ' later work El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan (" The Garden of Forking Paths ") describes a Chinese writer who goes into seclusion to write a book and construct a maze, the twist being that the end result is a combination of the two, but in one item the fictional novel is a maze-like narrative which only makes sense if read in the correct manner.

The novel has been described as " a virtuoso combination of nineteenth-century high realism with the experimentalism of the nouveau roman ", while " the real narrative is that of bodies ' actions on one another, their attraction and desires, their mutual memories " ( Gábor Csordás ).

High Heels is a melodrama, though its composite narrative ( the poster image of a high-heeled shoe which is also a gun ) testifies to the combination of two genres, melodrama and crime thriller.

Pei's first and only novel, praised in HISPANICA as " an admirable combination of absorbing narrative and sound scholarship ..."

Junction Point has indicated that its game will be a " combination of action and roleplaying, traditional narrative and player choice ", and will use Emergent Game Technologies ' Gamebryo engine.

Chandler: Red Tide is similar to Harold Foster's comic strip Prince Valiant in that the narrative is carried by a combination of graphics and text blocks without word balloons.

Ordinary Dance ( 1962 ) was a combination of movement and narrative, and featured the repetition of simple movements while Rainer recited a poetic autobiography.

The series ' combination of science fiction, horror and thriller elements, and its narrative focus on shadowy government departments and conspiracies to gain world domination, as well as the chemistry between James Hazeldine's and Louise Jameson's characters, in many ways anticipates the 1990s TV phenomenon The X-Files, while some elements of later episodes ( as the conspiracy begins to fight back against Crane ) recall The Prisoner.

An author may experiment with stream of consciousness writing, as opposed to naturalistic narrative, or a combination of styles.

The most notable example of a secret combination is the Gadianton robbers, a conspiracy throughout much of the Book of Mormon narrative.

Now time is also the concern of the fictional narrative, which is, at its simplest, the story of an action with, usually, a beginning, a middle, and an end -- elements which demand time as the first condition for their existence.

The game is unusual in that no dice are used in resolving conflicts or player actions ; instead a simple diceless system of comparative ability, and narrative description of the action by the players and gamemaster, is used to determine how situations are resolved.

Its swift narrative portrays Jesus as a heroic man of action, an exorcist, healer and miracle worker.

Eisenstein's solution was to shun narrative structure by eliminating the individual protagonist and tell stories where the action is moved by the group and the story is told through a clash of one image against the next ( whether in composition, motion, or idea ) so that the audience is never lulled into believing that they are watching something that has not been worked over.

Conversations split screen sometimes showed flashbacks of the recent or distant past juxtaposed with the present ; moments imagined or hoped by the characters juxtaposed with present reality ; present experience fractured into more than one emotion for a given line or action, showing an actor performing the same moment in different ways ; and present and near future actions juxtaposed to accelerate the narrative in temporal overlap.

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 narrative continues as Saul plots against David, but Jonathan dissuades Saul from this course of action ; he also tells David of it.

This progression culminates in Bilbo stealing a cup from the dragon's hoard, rousing him to wrath — an incident directly mirroring Beowulf, and an action entirely determined by traditional narrative patterns.

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.

Probably meant to be recited at elite gatherings, they differ from the Greek versions in their long declamatory, narrative accounts of action, their obtrusive moralizing, and their bombastic rhetoric.

Suggestions by Livy that the Romans banned the rites because women occupied leadership positions in the cult have been dismissed by Celia Schultz, thus: In light of view of female religious activity ... and despite the claims of Livy's narrative, it is unlikely that the gender of worshippers involved was the primary motivation behind the Senate's action.

This can be contrasted with moving a story forward with narrative technique ; that is, by making things happen because characters take action for solid, well-motivated reasons.

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.

Managers used narrative discourse to deal with conflicts, because direct action was often impossible.

A story within a story is a literary device in which one narrative is presented during the action of another narrative.

That character would be an ‘ action ’, and consequently one of the elements that make up the narrative.

Thus, Lester Grabbe points to a number of parallels between the Azazel narrative in 1 Enoch and the wording of Leviticus 16, including “ the similarity of the names Asael and Azazel ; the punishment in the desert ; the placing of sin on Asael / Azazel ; the resultant healing of the land .” Daniel Stökl also observes that “ the punishment of the demon resembles the treatment of the goat in aspects of geography, action, time and purpose .” Thus, the place of Asael ’ s punishment designated in 1 Enoch as Dudael is reminiscent of the rabbinic terminology used for the designation of the ravine of the scapegoat in later rabbinic interpretations of the Yom Kippur ritual.

Jean-Georges Noverre ( 29 April 1727 – 19 October 1810 ) was a French dancer and balletmaster, and is generally considered the creator of ballet d ' action, a precursor of the narrative ballets of the 19th century.

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.

In addition, he shares with Godwin, in particular, the project of combining historical and fictional modes into a distinctive and progressive narrative style designed to stimulate social awareness and action.