Usually means: Character development across narrative episodes.
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  1. story arc: Collins English Dictionary
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  5. Story arc: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

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▸ noun:  An extended or continuing storyline in episodic storytelling media such as television or comic books.

Similar:
storyline, story, plot, backstory, narrateme, storyscape, self-story, metastory, romance, work of fiction, more...

Opposite:
anti-climax, flat plot, non-narrative

Types:
exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution, denouement, more...

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Similar:
storyline, story, plot, backstory, narrateme, storyscape, self-story, metastory, romance, work of fiction, more...

Opposite:
anti-climax, flat plot, non-narrative

Types:
exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution, denouement, more...



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