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March 2014

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Five Parts Are Better Than…

Thanks to the SuperBowl “Puppy Love” commercial, we now know the love story of puppy meets Clydesdale, Clydesdale falls for puppy, and so on. It is a familar story construction with unusual costars, which is why the audience can connect immediately and still see it as refreshing. In Harrison Monarths’ The Irresistible Power of Storytelling as a Strategic Business Tool, he writes about the commercial’s construction and Freytag’s five acts: exposition rising action climax falling action dénouement Interestingly, the ad…

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