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.

In old versions of the story: " The scene of the murder, when it is specified, is usually the house of Aegisthus, who has not taken up residence in Agamemnon's palace, and it involves an ambush and the deaths of Agamemnon's followers too ".

Acting is the work of an actor or actress, which is a person in theatre, television, film, or any other storytelling medium who tells the story by portraying a character and, usually, speaking or singing the written text or play.

Since he has never confirmed this, the story is usually considered apocryphal.

This is a frequent occurrence in sitcoms, where networks may agree to continue a show, but only if a certain character is emphasized, leading other minor characters to become victims of Chuck Cunningham Syndrome, while the emphasized character ( usually a Breakout Character ) ( as in the case of Frasier Crane ) develops a more complete back story that ignores previous, more simplified back stories.

In an inverted detective story, the commission of the crime, and usually also the identity of the perpetrator, is shown or described at the beginning.

The stories are formulaic, usually focused on the everyday struggles of fifth grader Nobita, the protagonist of the story.

However, by the end of the story, there is usually retribution to the characters who end up misusing them, and a moral is taught.

In that story Bugs or his gang usually sets up some sort of trap to get Encyclopedia or Sally in trouble.

It is usually used to advance the story as a whole ( often to suggest the passage of time ), rather than to create symbolic meaning.

While usually harmless, Mike is not above using underhanded tactics to get his way — in A Hole in the Heart ( series 3 ), he steals a story from Marty because viewers are responding positively to it, while in Addicted to Fame, he demands that Geoffrey's television show be cancelled because he is jealous of the attention his friend is getting.

Like Brooke, he is uncritical of the show's journalistic tactics ( although in the episode Judge and Jury, he has reservations about their persecution of a priest accused of rape, mainly because he is a lapsed Catholic ); in fact he is usually the confidante of the executive producers, and the one they can trust to do what is needed to get a good story, or to persuade Mike to present a story.

Geoff usually appears in private conversations in his office with Mike, and is often the catalyst for Mike to question the reassurance he has been given by a producer that the story of the moment is being ethically pursued.

Along with the commercial growth has come the rise of video games also depicting graffiti, usually in a positive aspect – for example, the Jet Set Radio series ( 2000 – 2003 ) tells the story of a group of teens fighting the oppression of a totalitarian police force that attempts to limit the graffiti artists ' freedom of speech.

History paintings usually depict a moment in a narrative story, rather than a specific and static subject, such as a portrait.

The story is usually ascribed to the research of the Buddhist monk Chiang Chih-ch ' i during the 11th century.

In folkloristics, a myth is a sacred narrative usually explaining how the world or humankind came to be in its present form, although, in a very broad sense, the word can refer to any traditional story.

In folkloristics, a " myth " is a sacred narrative usually explaining how the world or humankind came to be in its present form, " a story that serves to define the fundamental worldview of a culture by explaining aspects of the natural world and delineating the psychological and social practices and ideals of a society ".

A Nasreddin story usually has a subtle humour and a pedagogic nature.

The story of the Korban Pesach is also retold at the Passover Seder, meaning order, and the symbolic food which represents it on the Seder Plate is usually a roasted lamb shankbone or chicken wing.

* 2007: According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, " Myth: " 1 a: a usually traditional story of ostensibly historical events that serves to unfold part of the world view of a people or explain a practice, belief, or natural phenomenon.

Further, in academic writing, though " myth " usually means a fundamental worldview story, even there it is occasionally ambiguous or clearly denotes " falsehood ", as in the " Christ myth theory ".

They also involve a central romantic story, usually in which the couple seem mismatched and even hostile to each other at first, but eventually overcome their differences in an amusing or entertaining way that leads to romance.

After the successful Russian Revolution ( 1917 ), the quality of spy fiction declined, because the Bolshevik enemy had won the Russian Civil War ( 1917 – 23 ); thus, the inter-war spy story usually concerns combating the Red Menace, which was then perceived as another " clash of civilizations ".

Much of the story is told first-hand, since Spalding had been involved in the game, first as a player and later an administrator, since the 1850s.

During a major news event one or more of the main news presenters may be sent to present live for the channel from the scene of the story, where they will conduct interviews with the people involved, question correspondents, introduce related reports and also give general information on the story, much as a reporter sent to cover a story would.

Another story involved Jon going away on a business trip around Christmas time, leaving Garfield a week's worth of food ( it was more like 11 second's worth of food ) which he devoured instantly, so Garfield leaves his house and gets locked out.

The story line involved a race between two ship crews trying to reach a meteorite which had landed in the Arctic.

Reverend Eugene Thomas from Ohio, USA, told James Powell and Roy P. Mackal in 1979 a story that involved the purported killing of a Mokèlé-mbèmbé near Lake Tele in 1959.

The story of a troubled youth transported to Mars as a convict laborer who becomes involved with a rebellion by independent farmers and tradesmen who want to terraform Mars and break the stranglehold by the corporations and domed cities sponsored by Earth governments.

Pacepa indicated that he was involved in contacting eastern bloc agents close the Vatican in order to fabricate the story to be used for the attack against the wartime pope.

Sanders argues that a plot to foster belief in the Resurrection would probably have resulted in a more consistent story, and that some of those who were involved in the events gave their lives for their belief.

The politics and ideology are secondary to the personal story that involved the hero or heroine.

The versatility of structuralism is such that a literary critic could make the same claim about a story of two friendly families (" Boy's Family + Girl's Family ") that arrange a marriage between their children despite the fact that the children hate each other (" Boy-Girl ") and then the children commit suicide to escape the arranged marriage ; the justification is that the second story's structure is an ' inversion ' of the first story's structure: the relationship between the values of love and the two pairs of parties involved have been reversed.

The most popular modern storytelling games originated as a sub-genre of role-playing games, where the game rules and statistics are heavily de-emphasised in favor of creating a believable story and immersive experience for all involved.

Ancient folk tales and myths sometimes involved something akin to travelling forward in time ; for example, in Hindu mythology, the Mahabharata mentions the story of the King Revaita, who travels to heaven to meet the creator Brahma and is shocked to learn that many ages have passed when he returns to Earth.

By the 1990s, Hauer was as well known for his humorous appearances in Guinness commercials as for his screen roles, which had increasingly involved low-budget films, including Split Second, which was set in a flooded London after global warming ; Omega Doom, another post-apocalyptic story in which he plays a soldier-robot ; and New World Disorder, opposite Tara FitzGerald.

The story involved Fitz returning to Manchester after several years of living in Australia with Judith and his son James ( who had been born during the final series of the original programme ) to attend his daughter Katy's wedding.

Cameron had originally planned to shoot on location in the Bahamas where the story was set but quickly realized that he needed to have a completely controlled environment because of the stunts and special visual effects involved.

The film tells the story of Bud Fox ( Sheen ), a young stockbroker desperate to succeed who becomes involved with his hero, Gordon Gekko ( Douglas ), a wealthy, unscrupulous corporate raider.

The story involved Skippy's efforts to help his new friend Sooky.

Berlitz and Moore's account of the story ( The Philadelphia Experiment: Project Invisibility ) claimed to include supposedly factual information, such as transcripts of an interview with a scientist involved in the experiment, their work has also been criticized for plagiarising key story elements from the novel Thin Air which was published a year earlier.

* Flagg ( Randall Flagg ), the villain of this story, is directly involved with The Dark Tower series, appearing as one of Roland of Gilead's main antagonists.

However, the villain of the story, Lovelace, is also involved in the letter writing, and this leads to tragedy.

One of his story ideas King Kong vs. Frankenstein was developed into Ishirō Honda's King Kong vs. Godzilla ( 1962 ) but O ' Brien was once again not involved in the production.

* Scoop ( term ), a news story, particularly connotating a new or developing story with aspects of importance and excitement, normally an exclusive for the journalist involved