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• Flashback
  *2a : [[interruption]] of [[chronological]] [[sequence]] (as in a [[film]] or [[literary]] work) by [[interjection]] of [[events]] of earlier occurr :b : a [[past]] incident recurring vividly in the [[mind]]
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• Ebullition
  *2 : the [[act]], [[process]], or [[state]] of boiling or bubbling up ...urs in three characteristic [[stages]], which are nucleate, transition and film boiling. These stages generally take place from low to high surface tempera
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• Exposure
  *1 : the [[fact]] or condition of being exposed: as a : the condition of [[being]] presented to [[view]] or made known <a [[politician] :b : the condition of [[being]] unprotected especially from severe [[weather]] <died
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• Retrospective
  ...to take a look back at events that already have taken place. For example, the term is used in [[medicine]], describing a look back at a patient's medical <center>For lessons on the related topic of the '''''[[Past]]''''', follow '''''[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?t
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• Perspective
  ...ion of the eye [[relative]] to the objects. There are two main meanings of the term: ''linear perspective'' and ''aerial perspective''. <center>For lessons on the [[topic]] of '''''Perspective''''', follow [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/
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• Melodrama
  ...ilm|movie]] or [[play]]) characterized by extravagant theatricality and by the predominance of plot and [[physical]] [[action]] over characterization :b : the genre of dramatic [[literature]] constituted by such works
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• Arts & Humanities Citation Index
  ...ion, & Film, [[Religion]], [[Theater]]. One of five databases that make up the Web of Science. [[Category: The Arts]]
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• Pathos
  ...plot are not to be confused with [[tragic]] occurrences. In a [[tragedy]], the character brings about his or her own demise, whereas those invoking pathos ...livery and an overall [[number]] of [[emotional]] items in the [[text]] of the [[speech]], or in [[writing]].
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• Stargate
  ...by generating an artificial and stable [[wormhole]] between them, allowing one-way travel through. <center>For lessons on the related [[topic]] of '''''[[Portals]]''''', follow [https://nordan.daynal.o
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• Ad lib
  *1: in accordance with one's [[wishes]] ...When the entire [[performance]] is predicated on [[spontaneous]] creation, the process is called [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Improvisational_theatre im
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• Actors
  *1 : one that acts : doer *2 a : one who [[represents]] a character in a [[dramatic]] production
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• Deliberation
  ..."), legal deliberation is a [[form]] of [[communication]] which emphasizes the use of [[logic]] and [[reasoning]] (as opposed to [[power]], [[coercion]] o ...plaintiff or the defendant and the amount and [[nature]] of the results of the trial.
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• Horror
  ...s such as "horrific" or "horror"; it means "to stand on end" and refers to the standing hairs of goose bumps, otherwise known as 'horripilation' ...r]], dread, or dismay <astonishment giving place to horror on the faces of the people about me — H. G. Wells>
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• Deliberations
  ...cy]]"), legal deliberation is a form of [[communication]] which emphasizes the use of [[logic]] and [[reasoning]] (as opposed to [[power]], [[coercion]] o ...plaintiff or the defendant and the amount and [[nature]] of the results of the [[trial]].
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• Fiction
  ...orks is considered to be a fundamental aspect of human [[culture]], one of the defining characteristics of [[humanity]]. ...ere appears to be little consensus regarding the number and composition of the fundamental elements of fiction. For example:
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• Spectacle
  ...he term "spectacle" has also been a term of art in [[theater]] dating from the 17th century in [[English language|English]] [[drama]]. ...[Rome|Roman]] elite of "Bread and Circuses" to maintain civil order due to the an inability to solve underlying social and economic problems.[https://www.
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• Farce
  ...comic interludes ‘stuffed’ into the texts of religious plays, which led to the current usage. *3: the broad [[humor]] characteristic of ''farce''
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• Law of Attraction
  ...at thoughts (both conscious and unconscious) can affect [[things]] outside the head, not just through [[motivation]], but by other means. Essentially, "if ...er Rhonda Byrne. Byrne followed up the film with a bestselling [[book]] of the same title and appeared on a series of talk shows in 2007.
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• James Agee
  ...e U.S. His autobiographical novel, ''[[A Death in the Family]]'' 1957, won the author a posthumous [[Pulitzer Prize]]. ...de. When Agee was six, his father died in an automobile accident, and from the age of seven he and his younger sister, Emma, were educated in boarding sch
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• EFTS (Electronic Full Text Sources)
  ...''Diderot's Encyclopédie'', ''English Poetry'', ''Italian Women Writers'', the ''Patrologia Latina Database'', ''North American Women's Letters and Diarie ...Library's Research Guides] for more subject specific information or visit the [https://guides.lib.uchicago.edu/scrc Special Collections Research Center]
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