Romance.

III. THE NATURE OF NARRATIVE 44
Transition from Material to Method--The Four Methods
of Discourse--1. Argumentation; 2. Exposition;
3. Description; 4. Narration, the Natural Mood
of Fiction--Series and Succession--Life Is
Chronological, Art Is Logical--The Narrative
Sense--The Joy of Telling Tales--The Missing of
This Joy--Developing the Sense of Narrative--The
Meaning of the Word "Event"--How to Make Things
Happen--The Narrative of Action--The Narrative
of Character--Recapitulation.

IV. PLOT 60
Narrative a Simplification of Life--Unity in
Narrative--A Definite Objective Point--Construction,
Analytic and Synthetic--The Importance of
Structure--Elementary Narrative--Positive and
Negative Events--The Picaresque Pattern--Definition
of Plot--Complication of the Network--The Major
Knot--"Beginning, Middle, and End"--The
Sub-Plot--Discursive and Compacted
Narratives--Telling Much or Little of a Story--Where
to Begin a Story--Logical Sequence and Chronological
Succession--Tying and Untying--Transition to the
Next Chapter.

V. CHARACTERS 77
Characters Should Be Worth Knowing--The Personal
Equation of the Audience--The Universal Appeal
of Great Fictitious Characters--Typical
Traits--Individual Traits--The Defect of
Allegory--The Defect of Caricature--Static and
Kinetic Characters--Direct and Indirect
Delineation--Subdivisions of Both Methods--I.
Direct Delineation: 1. By Exposition; 2. By
Description; [Gradual Portrayal]; 3. By
Psychological Analysis; 4. By Reports from other
Characters--II. Indirect Delineation: 1. By Speech;
2. By Action; 3. By Effect on other Characters; 4.
By Environment.

VI. SETTING 99
Evolution of Background in the History of
Painting--The First Stage--The Second Stage--The
Third Stage--Similar Evolution of Setting in the History