Structure

This is a scene within a movie or a book that flashes back to an event that took place earlier in the story or before the beginning. This happens in the movie Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows when Harry Potter looks into Snapes past to events that took place before the movie.
 * __Flash Back__-**

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__**Foreshadowing-**__

Foreshadowing is when a book or movie makes hints about the future, in the present. Star Wars is a great example of this, when Obi-Wan Kenobi says to his padawan Anakin Skywalker: "Why do I feel as if you are going to be the death of me?" Sure enough, Anakin is the one to kill Obi-Wan, two episodes later, as Darth Vader.

__**Circular**__- Circular Structure is when the plot of a story goes "full circle" and ends right where it started. This can happen in literal terms, or figuratively. In the movie Shutter Island, there is a figurative circular plot, where the mentally ill main character ends the movie with a relapse, ending exactly where he started.

__**Episodic**__- Episodic is the structure where a story is split up into multiple episodes, Usually following a single theme. One good example of an episodic story is the TV show Heroes which through multiple episodes tells the story of people who all have special powers.



__**Linear**__- A Linear story is a story that can occasionaly has flashbacks or flashforwards, but it mostly stays in chronological order. The majority of storys are set in this structure. Transformers is a movie that follows a linear structure because it doesn't skip around in the story, it stays in order of the events.

__**Frame**__- Is any story with a main theme or central storyline brought together by multiple smaller stories. A great example of this is the book //World War Z: an Oral History of the Zombie War// by Max Brooks. It gives the point of view from multiple sources about how the zombie outbreak started and how it affected our world.


 * __Epistolary__**-



Epistolary is when a story is written in the form of a journal, or a series of letters. In a segment of "Watchmen," the character Dr. Manhattan describes his past in the format of a journal, such as "Today is October 7th, 1943. Today I meet my first love."