diegesis

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However the diegesis is presented this is a world where these things happen, like the plain world of real people.

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  1. In rhetoric, that part of an oration in which the speaker makes his statement of facts; the narration (which see).

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  • Film Art textbook, where the diegesis is defined as "the total world of the story action" (7th edition, 70).
  • However the diegesis is presented this is a world where these things happen, like the plain world of real people. —  Epinions Recent Content for Home
  • The film world calls this concept "diegesis." —  GameSetWatch
  • Its use of diegesis is probably the way in which the game is most unique among games. —  GameSetWatch
  • Zhang Bingjian, with his first feature length film, may believe that elements of a diegesis are indistinguishable from elements arising from a character's psychological projections, but it's a disingenuous approach to storytelling and induces mistrust in any attentive viewer, to say the least, "writes —  GreenCine Daily
 

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  1. New Latin, from Greek διήγησις, narration, from διηγεῖσθαι, set forth in detail, narrate, from διά, through, + ἡγεῖσθαι lead.
 

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