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This video discusses various narrative techniques, such as flashback, foreshadowing, description, dialogue, and multiple plot lines.

This video introduces the topic of characterization.

This video describes the use of flashback in a story.

A video about character motivation- intrinsic and extrinsic motivation.

A video titled "The Importance of Setting" which details how setting influences where and when a story happens.

A video titled "Plotting a play" that explains how to create an outline to help you write the plot of a play.

A video titled "Plot Development" addressing author's building tension and suspense to lead to the story's turning point.

A video titled "Interweaving Plots" that explains how to connect to separate plot lines in a narrative.

A video titled "Incorporating Dialogue" that explains how to include and write dialogue in a narrative.

A video titled "Facing the Unknown" that explains how to create tension within a narrative.

A video titled "Conflict in Drama" that explains how to add conflict while writing a drama.

A video titled "Conflict" depicting the difference between internal and external conflict.

A video titled "Composing a Narrative" that explains the components needed to write a narrative.

A video titled "Character Types" that details different character types in a story.

A video titled "Analyzing Theme" depicting five ways to look closer at the theme of a story.

This video explains the role of dialogue in a drama.

Supports textual evidence in a narrative structure.

This video discusses dramatic form.

A video entitled, "Discovering Dialect" which analyzes dialect in stories.

Comparing characters development

This video, entitled "Types of Dialogue," explains the difference between and uses for monologue, dialogue, aside, and soliloquy.

This video, entitled "Dialogue," explains what dialogue is and how it is used in a personal narrative.