story arc

English

From story and arc.

story arc (plural story arcs)

An extended or continuing storyline in episodic storytelling media such as television or comic books.
- 1992, Linda Seger, The Art of Adaptation: Turning Fact and Fiction into Film:
  This story arc about "hunting the buffalo" is part of a larger story arc about "developing relationships with the Indians".
- 2005, David Schmid, Natural Born Celebrities: Serial Killers in American Culture:
  A story arc can be developed continuously until it is completed, but it is more usual for a drama series to treat a story arc discontinuously...

narrative line within a fictional plot

Chinese:
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Esperanto: rakontarko
Finnish: tarinakaari, juoni (fi)
French: arc narratif (fr) m
Galician: arco narrativo m
Italian: arco narrativo m
Japanese: 編 (ja) (へん, hen), アーク (ja) (āku)
Korean: 스토리 아크 (seutori akeu)
Polish: akcja (pl) f
Portuguese: arco de história m
Russian: сюже́тная ли́ния f (sjužétnaja línija), сюже́тная а́рка f (sjužétnaja árka)
Spanish: arco narrativo m, arco argumental m
Swedish: båge (sv) c

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