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Thriller is a genre of literature, film, and television that uses suspense, tension, and excitement as the main elements. It’s sub-genres include crime, mystery and psychological thriller. Also, after the murder of President Kennedy political and paranoid thriller became popular. Sub-genres tend to have their own characteristics and methods towards creating the ‘thrill’ aspect.
“Homer's Odyssey is one of the oldest stories in the Western world and is regarded as an early prototype of the thriller.“ Steve Bennett. • Definition: A thriller is villain-driven plot, whereby he presents obstacles and puzzles that a character must overcome.
MacGuffin • A MacGuffin (sometimes McGuffin or maguffin) is "a plot element that catches the viewers' attention or drives the plot of a work of fiction“ • Defining aspects of a MacGuffin is that the major players in the story are willing to do and sacrifice almost anything to obtain it, regardless of what the MacGuffin actually is. • The specific nature of the MacGuffin may be ambiguous, undefined, generic, left open to interpretation or otherwise completely unimportant to the plot. • Common examples are money, victory, glory, survival, a source of power, or a potential threat, or it may simply be something entirely unexplained and especially common within thrillers.
Red Herring • Red Herring is a rhetorical or literal tactic of diverting attention away from an item of significance. The reader's suspicions are thus misdirected, allowing the true culprit to go (temporarily at least) undetected. • A false protagonist is another example of a red herring.
