IN MEDIAS RES
Latin for “in the middle of things.” A technique for beginning a narrative at a
moment of high drama and action. Classically, this may be seen in Homer’s
Iliad, which begins in the tenth year of the Trojan War before explaining the
war and its causes to the reader. Ambrose Bierce uses this technique to
great effect in “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge.”
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