EPISODE

noun see: in Date: 1678 a usually brief unit of action in a dramatic or literary work: as, the part of an ancient Greek tragedy between two choric songs, a developed situation that is integral to but separable from a continuous narrative ; incident , one of a series of loosely connected stories or scenes, the part of a serial presented at one performance, an event that is distinctive and separate although part of a larger series, a digressive subdivision in a musical composition, see: occurrence