Episode

n.

1.

(Rhet.) A separate incident, story, or action, introduced for the purpose of giving a greater variety to the events related; an incidental narrative, or digression, separable from the main subject, but naturally arising from it.

Noun	1.	episode - a happening that is distinctive in a series of related events
	2.	episode - a brief section of a literary or dramatic work that forms part of a connected series
	3.	episode - a part of a broadcast serial Synonyms: instalment, installment
	4.	episode - film consisting of a succession of related shots that develop a given subject in a movie Synonyms: sequence

action, adventure, anagnorisis, angle, architectonics, architecture, argument, aside, atmosphere, background, broken thread, brokenness, bypath, byway, catastrophe, chapter, characterization, circumstance, color, complication, continuity, contrivance, denouement, departure, design, development, deviation, device, digression, disconnectedness, disconnection, discontinuance, discontinuation, discontinuity, discontinuousness, discreteness, discursion, disjunction, excursion, excursus, experience, fable, fact, falling action, fitfulness, gimmick, go, hap, happenstance, incident, incoherence, incompleteness, infix, injection, insert, insertion, insinuation, intercalation, interjection, interlineation, interlocution, intermittence, interpolation, introduction, irregularity, line, local color, matter, matter of fact, mood, motif, movement, mythos, non sequitur, noncontinuance, nonlinearity, nonseriality, nonuniformity, obiter dictum, occasion, parenthesis, part, particular, peripeteia, phenomenon, plan, plot, reality, recognition, remark, rising action, scene, scheme, secondary plot, side path, side remark, slant, story, structure, subject, subplot, switch, thematic development, theme, thing, tone, topic, tossing-in, turn of events, twist

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