Media Studies A-Level
Story and telling
What Story and telling means in Media Studies A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Story and telling
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Reference: AQA
The two things narratology treats character types as helping a text to organise.
Topics that use Story and telling
- Narratology (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Audience positioning through narrative
- Causality and event linkage
- Chronology versus causality
- Diegesis
- Diegetic and non-diegetic sound
- Narrating voice and source
- Narration
- Narrative function
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