ADF: Dramatic Form
Dramatic form controls the narrative device, which includes the narrative figure, initial, and terminal points of story. In the “image” of story earlier mentioned, dramatic form is the illustrative “figure” that begins to embody a community. Dramatic form, therefore, concerns what is the story, who is telling it, and how the story is told.
To evaluate dramatic form, explore, one or all of:
- narrative device
- degree (or character) of narrative remove
- primary figures
- dramatic figures
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