Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe | Style
Episodes
An episode is usually a brief segment of action within a larger work, that can be separated from that larger work. It is similar to a parenthetical remark. The term comes from the Greek word epeisodion, meaning "following upon the entrance." In Greek drama, an episode occurs between choric songs. While the chorus began as an ensemble of fifty or more men, by the time of Christopher Marlowe (Doctor Faustus, 1604), the chorus had shrunk to a single man reciting a prologue and epilogue.
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