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  Role-playing

  Changing of one's behaviour to assume a role
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  conviction

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  Academic discipline that studies past events
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  occurrence

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  Narrative technique in which one character within a narrative narrates
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  Social and cultural activity of sharing stories, often with improvisation, theatrics, or embellishment
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  First few words of the opening line of a poem, song, or book, often used in lieu of a title
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  Literary technique in which a storyteller gives an advance hint of what is to come later in the story
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  Main character of a creative work
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  Entr'acte

  Piece of music performed between acts of a theatrical production
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  dramatic theatre

  Branch of theatrical art that presents a work in drama mode
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  Complex, plot-driven variety of the detective story in which the audience is given the opportunity to engage in the same process of deduction as the protagonist throughout the investigation of a crime
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  Flashback (narrative)

  Interjected scene that takes a narrative back in time
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  Concept in narratology: presentation of a sequence of events in a narrative work
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  Tetralogy

  Compound work that is made up of four distinct works
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  instruction
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  breakdown

  Damage or breakage event that compromises the functioning of a system or a machine
• J

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  Antithesis of FOMO (fear of missing out)