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reiteration, we usually forget many details of the story and the interest arises due to these holes of memory; others claim that uncertainty remains even for often told stories because, during the immersion in the fictional world, we forget fictionally what we know factually or because we expect fictional worlds to look like the real world, where exact repetition of an event is impossible.
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1981:Unreliable narrator
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1650:Epic poetry
1371:Time travel
1184:Red herring
1169:Plot device
1140:Frame story
1093:Cliffhanger
1036:Tritagonist
1011:Protagonist
680:Story Press
279:Red herring
244:Cliffhanger
170:Oedipus Rex
66:uncertainty
2186:Categories
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1921:Nonfiction
1885:Underwater
1781:Picaresque
1756:Historical
1741:Epistolary
1613:Fairy tale
1524:Peripeteia
1506:Exposition
1262:Dreamworld
1204:Stereotype
1174:Plot twist
922:Antagonist
584:. Mahwah:
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239:Adrenaline
185:Mark Twain
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1943:Narration
1892:Superhero
1816:Chivalric
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1476:Structure
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1252:Backstory
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1159:MacGuffin
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927:Archenemy
914:Character
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165:Sophocles
2207:Emotions
2149:Glossary
2144:Rhetoric
1951:Diegesis
1931:Creative
1904:Thriller
1853:Southern
1771:Paranoid
1766:Nautical
1677:Vignette
1635:Gamebook
1603:Folklore
1510:Protasis
1389:Allegory
1334:Metaphor
1292:parallel
1287:universe
1267:Dystopia
1224:Suspense
1110:Dialogue
1098:Conflict
1006:Narrator
978:Hamartia
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233:See also
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154:(1982).
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90:conflict
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33:Suspense
2079:Prequel
2035:Related
2021:Present
1914:Western
1870:Science
1843:Fantasy
1811:Romance
1761:Mystery
1746:Ergodic
1711:Fiction
1667:Parable
1662:Novella
1592:Fabliau
1563:Premise
1414:Imagery
1404:Diction
1282:country
1239:Setting
1219:Subplot
1041:Villain
994:Byronic
796:Poetics
654:Longman
98:mystery
54:anxiety
2202:Memory
2083:Sequel
2067:Retcon
2062:Reboot
2026:Future
1860:Horror
1848:Gothic
1833:Satire
1751:Erotic
1618:Legend
1520:Climax
1394:Bathos
1301:Utopia
1189:Reveal
1088:Cliché
1066:Action
1060:Ab ovo
999:Tragic
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2090:Genre
2057:Canon
2008:Tense
1926:Novel
1909:Urban
1821:Prose
1806:Rogue
1731:Crime
1726:Comic
1687:Genre
1657:Novel
1608:Fable
1586:Drama
1551:films
1381:Style
1349:Motif
1339:Moral
1324:Irony
1316:Theme
1229:Trope
290:Notes
72:, or
70:doubt
2095:List
2016:Past
1875:Hard
1828:Saga
1736:Docu
1692:List
1623:Myth
1578:Form
1466:Tone
1439:Hook
1424:Mood
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967:Foil
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