Note: Italicized page numbers indicate a figure on the corresponding page.

Absalom, Absalom (Faulkner) 80

active protagonist loop 65, 66, 668, 67, 67

adventure: beginning of 22; in dénouement 445, 56, 114; examples of 46, 58, 1778; as genre 73; initiation of 41, 44; invisible structure component 20, 24, 28, 39, 75; as opposition clause 113; plot and momentum 334; in story middle 43; in story premise 17, 30, 123

Alien (Hill) 102

Aliens (film) 128

All Is Lost (film) 74

Amadeus (film) 63

antagonist: as a complication character 131; examples of 113, 114; impact on protagonist 35; multiple antagonists 43; opposition from 323, 434; in Visible Structure 137

archetype, defined 19

Aristotle 15

The Art of Dramatic Writing (Egri) 16

Benchley, ...

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