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• Autobiography
  ...s://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Eyre Jane Eyre]'' is yet another example of fictional autobiography, as noted on the front page of the original version. The term
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• Climax
  ...er]] [[discovers]] something about himself or herself, and another unknown character. The last element is revealing the theme itself. ...punch line of a joke is a good analogue of the climax of other forms of [[fictional]] [[narrative]], though the [[absence]] of any falling [[action]] is an [[e
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• Caricature
  ...o do was find the caricature of an animal that worked best as a human-like character.[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caricature]
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• Anecdote
  ...l a [[truth]] more general than the brief tale itself, or to delineate a [[character]] trait in such a light that it strikes in a flash of [[insight]] to its ve
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• Monster
  :b : one who deviates from normal or acceptable [[behavior]] or [[character]] ...or one of its axes. Otherwise, classic monsters spawn from [[legends]] and fictional [[stories]]. Well known monsters include [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dra
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• Ideal
  ...p as a source of inspiration. Since this is an actual person or fictional character, it is too complex and multi-faceted to be considered an ideal in the abstr
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• Data
  ...it becomes information. Data may relate to reality, or to fiction as in a fictional [[movie]]. Data about reality consists of [[proposition]]s. A large class ''Raw data'' are [[number]]s, [[character (computing)|characters]], [[image]]s or other outputs from devices to conve
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• Deduction
  [[Sherlock Holmes]], the [[fictional character|fictional]] [[detective]] created by [[Sir Arthur Conan Doyle]], is well known for re
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• Narrative
  ...nce of events described in a narrative. A narrative can also be told by a character within a larger narrative. An important part of narration is the ''narrati ...included, this is termed ''internal [[focus|focalisation]]'': when each [[character]]'s mind focuses on a particular event, the text reflects his or her reacti
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• Derivative
  Question: Can I take a character from a movie, like Chewbacca from Star Wars, and use it in a play with a ve ...fictional character in a different context or medium is still copying that character, and therefore infringement[https://www.chillingeffects.org/derivative/faq.
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• Existence
  ...being accosted in public as if they are to blame for the actions of the [[character]] they play. ...[energy]]. But in the layperson's [[worldview]], existence includes real, fictional, and even contradictory objects. Thus if we reason from the statement ''Pe
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• Synchronicity
  ...his is most likely an invented name and could easily be a purely fictional character. [https://books.google.com/books?id=DVcCAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA173&dq=%22emile+desch ...consciousness.</blockquote> outlines the idea of synchronicity. The Miller character states that while many people see life as a series of unconnected incidents
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• Personal
  ...rsonne]]) , L. '''[[persona]]''' (a dramatic ''mask'', hence ''role, part, character''), possibly Etruscan '''[[phersu]]''' ("mask"). ...identity, autonomy, and agency, by depicting a world in which [[fictional character|characters]] could "copy" themselves in the novel [[Kiln People]].
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• Dialogue
  ...rsation, while leaving intact the amusing element of [[fictional character|character]]-drawing. He must have begun this about the year [[405 BC]], and by [[399 The philosophic dialogue, with or without Socrates as a character, continues to be used on occasion by philosophers when attempting to write
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• What Is Narrative: Ricoeur, Bakhtin, and Process Approaches
  ...theses of unrelated parts they all stories and all contain a degree of the fictional. ...organising of events into succession, into story or narrative form, is not fictional but a true representation of human perception.
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• Extraterrestrial
  ...leashed his marauding Martians (see ''War of the Worlds'', [[novel]]), the fictional creatures from "out there" have tended to be of the usurping, death-ray var ...basic instincts. A further point to bear in [[mind]] is the variation in [[character]] which can exist between [[individual]]s within a species. Will the first
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• Languages and Literature
  ...some that are more theoretical in nature). These often take the form of [[character string]]s, produced by some combination of [[formal grammar]] and semantics ...ictionary]] (from the [[Latin]] ''littera'' meaning "an individual written character ([[letter (alphabet)|letter]])"). The term has generally come to identify a
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• 1992-11-11-More On Materializations
  ...raction|distractors]]. It is [[imperative]] that you [[strengthen]] your [[character]] to [[endure]] what may come. You do not know all that can happen. I do [[ ...things, to date, that have been asked of you will do much to build your [[character]]. It will build the [[confidence]] within you. Your [[picturizations]] of
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• Metaphysics
  ...hereafter, metaphysics became the philosophical enquiry of a non-empirical character into the nature of existence. Thus the original situation of metaphysics be ...y|causally]] inert. [[Philosophy of mathematics|Mathematical objects]] and fictional entities and worlds are often given as examples of abstract objects. The vi
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• 2008-02-11-Stages of Individualization
  ...titutes reality, and these notions are no way demonstrable. As one of your fictional characters once said: Sometimes the magic works, and sometimes it doesn’t ...a large part in a person’s life, and be part of their soul. Even a cartoon character like Mickey Mouse has a certain reality and, like superstitions or wishes,
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