I was listening to the free Dramatica videos. Dramatica theory says that a story is an argument, and the characters represent different views on the argument. Melanie Phillips said in videos 33-35 that each argument has several necessary components which should each be represented by a character. This reminded me of my recent

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Still not the next post on the survey, but two postscripts to How theme suggests what characters to use. The first is about why views might be expressed as characters; the second has to do with medieval stories.

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1. APPRAISALS

I was doing some consulting on “sentiment analysis” of tweets, which means making computers guess whether tweets say good things or bad things about whatever they’re talking about. This led me to The Appraisal Website and their appraisal ontology, which divides appraisals into 3 types:

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