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EntityQ277720· pop 34· linked from 652 articles

in medias res

narrative that opens mid-plot, or 'in the middle of things'

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stylistic device

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myth

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narrative structure

William Shakespeare

Dante Alighieri

Edgar Allan Poe

International Standard Book Number

One Thousand and One Nights

William Faulkner

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