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How to make a sad story funny - Jodie Houlston-Lau

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How to make your writing funnier - Cheri Steinkellner

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First person vs. Second person vs. Third person

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First person vs. Second person vs. Third person - Rebekah Bergman

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The Hero's Journey and the Monomyth: Crash Course World Mythology #25

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How to make your writing suspenseful - Victoria Smith

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Check out our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/teded View full lesson: https://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-to-make-your-writing-suspenseful-victoria-smith What makes a good horror story? Hideous monsters and fountains of blood might seem like a good place to start, but as horror author H.P. Lovecraft wrote, "The oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown."

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What makes a poem … a poem? - Melissa Kovacs

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Aristotle's Poetics, is (as far as we can tell) the earliest work on literary theory, and it dedicates a portion to a discussion of tragedy. Written nearly two thousand years ago, it remains influential in our understanding and appreciation of tragedy even today. Roughly one hundred pages in length, The Poetics can be read in a sitting or two. You can read the full text here.

The BBC Radio4's In Our Time, gathers a panel of experts to discuss this important work, and provides great insights into its reception and influence through the ages.

Perhaps the greatest examples of tragedy from antiquity come from Sophocles in his Oedipus trilogy, Oedipus the King, Oedipus in Colonus and Antigone. The works of Renaissance playwrights, including William Shakespeare, are replete with the tropes identified by Aristotle. The great twentieth century American playwright Arthur Miller, who penned The Crucible and Death of a Salesman, also wrote a piece for the New York Times in 1949 titled " Tragedy and the Common Man." In it, he provides an interesting modern, American take on the Aristotelian ideas of the tragic hero. Read it and see what you think.

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Why tragedies are alluring - David E. Rivas

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The story goes something like this: A royal, rich, or righteous individual - who is otherwise a lot like us - makes a mistake that sends his or her life spiraling into ruin. It's the classic story arc for a Greek tragedy, and we love it so much that we continue to use it today.

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The evolution of the book - Julie Dreyfuss

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View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-evolution-of-the-book-julie-dreyfuss What makes a book a book? Is it just anything that stores and communicates information? Or does it have to do with paper, binding, font, ink, its weight in your hands, the smell of the pages?

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: The Danger of a Single Story | TED

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23 How to write fiction that comes alive

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How to write descriptively - Nalo Hopkinson

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 11 The Periodic Table of Fictional Elements

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6 The emergency of drama as a literary art  

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The emergence of drama as a literary art - Mindy Ploeckelmann

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Figurative language | Reading | Khan Academy

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The battle of the Greek tragedies - Melanie Sirof

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The pleasure of poetic pattern - David Silverstein

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Humans are creatures of rhythm and repetition. From our breath to our gait: rhythm is central to our experience, and often brings us pleasure. We can find pleasure in the rhythm of a song, or even the rows of an orchard. Of course, too much repetition can also backfire.

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Interactive map of authors you might like

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Literature Map - The Tourist Map of Literature

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The art of the metaphor - Jane Hirshfield

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How to build a fictional world - Kate Messner

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View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-to-build-a-fictional-world-kate-messner Why is J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy so compelling? How about The Matrix or Harry Potter? What makes these disparate worlds come alive are clear, consistent rules for how people, societies -- and even the laws of physics -- function in these fictional universes.

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12 In on a secret? That's dramatic irony

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12 In on a secret? That's dramatic irony

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In on a secret? That's dramatic irony - Christopher Warner