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Storytelling is a diverse subject and there are extra ideas that do not fit into other sections. These are collected here.

• Story is...: Key aspects of stories.
• The Use of Stories: The purpose of stories.
• Barthes' Five Codes: That weave through any narrative.
• Burke's Five Elements of Dramatism: Analysing semantic dimensions.
• Classic story conflicts: Tension conflicts that appear in many stories.
• Climactic Closure: Drawing it all together at the end.
• Four mythic forms: Different types of myth you might encounter.
• Magical computers: TV and movie computers are not like real-world ones.
• McKee's Admonishments: What is and is not story.
• Reasonable or Right: Stories should be one or the other.
• Suspension of disbelief: Create unreal worlds that are joyously real.
• Teaching tales: Stories that inform and educate.
• Tension-resolution pairs: Are at the heart of many stories.
• Thinking, linearity and stories: Stories mirror how we think and experience the world.

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Use of Language

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