The exercise of a character’s will in the face of an opposing force. Examples include: Mama Rose standing up to: her father, the agents, Herbie, etc.Tevye’s daughters standing up to their father.Maria teaching the Von Tropp children to sing against their...
A series of scenes compressed into a single sequence, usually for the purpose of collapsing...
Information exchanged between characters who know one another. Compare to stranger exposition (below). The concept here is that characters who already know each other often can’t be used to deliver backstory/exposition, because they already know this...
Information exchanged between characters who know little or nothing about one another. See Neighbor exposition (above). Because strangers don’t know much about each other, they’re useful to the bookwriter to deliver information which neighbors/friends...
