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- Try to graph some of your favorite books, movies, or television shows
on Freytag’s pyramid. Notice how common this structure is but also
how often it is a complicated tangle of many pyramids rather than a
single pyramid. If you don’t want a traditionally structured plot to
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but you don’t want them to see it coming. This exercise will help you
begin to think about meeting that challenge.
Writing Exercise