Search results

• Confidant
  ...t [[information]] about themselves (as well as information critical to the plot) that they would not entrust to other characters. The type of character use Confidants may not only be used for conveying [[information]] about the plot to the [[audience]], but may also be used to [[share]] information about th
  2 KB (303 words) - 23:40, 12 December 2020
• Quibble
  ...'''quibble''' is a common [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plot_device plot device], used to fulfill the exact verbal conditions of an [[agreement]] in order
  1 KB (234 words) - 02:26, 13 December 2020
• Traverse
  *8a : a lateral movement (as of the saddle of a lathe carriage); also : a device for imparting such movement *9: a [[line]] surveyed across a plot of ground
  2 KB (368 words) - 02:44, 13 December 2020
• Stasis
  ...ion plots rely on a [[physical]] device to establish this region. When the device is deactivated, the stasis field collapses; that is, the stasis effect ends ...ears beyond their [[normal]] lifetimes. This property also allows for such plot devices as booby traps, containing, for instance, a nuclear bomb. Once out
  4 KB (558 words) - 02:42, 13 December 2020
• Foreshadow
  ...bout the plot and what may come in the near future or, in other words, the plot developments to come later in the story. ...itself.". In [[literature]], classical foreshadowing serves as a literary device whereby the [[author]] plays on common [[beliefs]] or causal connections th
  8 KB (1,368 words) - 00:19, 13 December 2020
• Wish
  ...a [[hope]] or [[desire]] for something. Fictionally, wishes can be used as plot devices. In [[folklore]], opportunities for "making a wish" or for wishes t ...n also be a small part of a tale, in which case it is often used as a plot device. You can wish on many [[things]] for example: wishing wells, dandelions whe
  6 KB (960 words) - 02:41, 13 December 2020
• Quest
  ...ature]], a '''quest''', a [[journey]] towards a goal, serves as a [[plot]] device and as a [[symbol]]. Quests [[appear]] in the [[folklore]] of every nation
  4 KB (569 words) - 02:34, 13 December 2020
• Prediction
  ...f [[Book of Revelation|Revelation]] (Bible) thus uses vision as a literary device in this regard. It is also prophecy or prophetic literature when it is rela ...istmas_Carol A Christmas Carol] also makes use of [[vision]] as a literary device. After Scrooge confronts the visions given to him by the Ghosts of Christma
  10 KB (1,527 words) - 02:19, 13 December 2020
• Navigation
  ...ate external forces acting on the ship. The navigator also consults the DR plot to avoid navigation hazards.[8] A fix taken at each DR position will reveal ...ide the level of safety and accuracy required, the use of a traditional DR plot on paper charts is a prudent backup, especially in restricted waters.[8]
  23 KB (3,688 words) - 01:27, 13 December 2020
• Ancient Arrow Book, chapter 2
  ...ource. According to Jamisson, the object is quite possibly a map or homing device of some kind. He's here to explain his hypothesis. I've already given him p ...r, he wrote the word, MAP. He shuffled a few short paces and wrote, HOMING DEVICE. He then drew a vertical line between the two words. Above the words, in th
  23 KB (3,906 words) - 21:40, 21 January 2010
• Personal
  * '''Artistic:''' [[literary]], [[rhetorical]] or [[allegorical]] [[Plot device|devices]] to convey personhood; especially as it relates to [[fantasy]] and ...could also in future be transposed faithfully into some form of artificial device (for example to avoid illness such as [[brain cancer]]) would the patient s
  21 KB (3,151 words) - 01:56, 13 December 2020
• Fourth Dimension
  To make the leap from three spatial dimensions into four, a device called ''dimensional analogy'' is commonly employed. '''Dimensional analogy *''[[Donnie Darko]]'' uses the Fourth Dimension as a plot for [[Time Travel]]ing. The reference is related to water being a fourth d
  17 KB (2,680 words) - 00:39, 13 December 2020
• Languages and Literature
  ...ar]] and [[syntax]], of an [[verisimilitude|unbelievable]] or disjointed [[plot (narrative)|story-line]], or of inconsistent or unconvincing [[characteriza ...th verse structure translates often into a more complex [[plot (narrative)|plot]] or into one richer in precise detail than one typically finds even in nar
  35 KB (5,154 words) - 01:39, 13 December 2020
• Irony
  ...y, deception, or feigned ignorance) is a literary or [[Rhetoric|rhetorical device]], in which there is an incongruity or discordance between what one says or In [[drama]], the device of giving the spectator an item of [[information]] that at least one of the
  24 KB (3,775 words) - 01:23, 13 December 2020
• Multiverse
  ...ience fiction]] and fantasy novels. For some it serves primarily as a plot device, a means to put characters into an unfamiliar situation, or a framework tha
  22 KB (3,254 words) - 01:27, 13 December 2020
• Ancient Arrow Book, chapter 1
  ...variations? They aren't [[arbitrary]]. We screwed up; we didn't build our plot diagrams with enough granularity to see the pattern before." "And what's the plot granularity?"
  44 KB (7,274 words) - 23:45, 12 December 2020
• Novel
  ...dard plot of the early romance was a series of [[adventure]]s. Following a plot framework as old as Heliodorus, and so durable as to be still alive in Holl ...t these romances had nothing to do with real life was answered through the device of the ''[[roman à clef]]'' (literally "novel with a key") — one that, p
  50 KB (8,118 words) - 01:22, 13 December 2020
• Chapter 27 - The Healing of the Dream
  ...t he is but a dancing shadow, leaping up and down according to a senseless plot conceived within the idle dreaming of the world. ..., because you want the guilt to rest on them. How childish is the petulant device to keep your innocence by pushing guilt outside yourself, but never letting
  54 KB (10,403 words) - 22:40, 18 October 2014
• Atlantis
  ...ngers of reading Plato. For he is clearly using what has become a standard device of fiction — stressing the historicity of an event (and the discovery ...The video game ''[[Tomb Raider]]'' features Atlantis as the basis of its plot and the location for its climactic ending. It is also featured prominently
  34 KB (5,126 words) - 23:42, 12 December 2020
• Neruda Interviews, 4
  ...they wield great power. They are the strategists of the triad of power who plot and plan at such a level as to make corporate executives and politicians se Dr. Neruda: “One of the most interesting artifacts was the original homing device.”
  119 KB (20,243 words) - 22:13, 21 January 2010

View (previous 20 | next 20) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500)