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  2. Anagnorisis - Wikipedia

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    Anagnorisis (/ ˌ æ n ə ɡ ˈ n ɒr ɪ s ɪ s /; Ancient Greek: ἀναγνώρισις) is a moment in a play or other work when a character makes a critical discovery.Anagnorisis originally meant recognition in its Greek context, not only of a person but also of what that person stood for.

  3. Peripeteia - Wikipedia

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    Aristotle says that peripeteia is the most powerful part of a plot in a tragedy along with discovery. A peripety is the change of the kind described from one state of things within the play to its opposite, and that too in the way we are saying, in the probable or necessary sequence of events.

  4. Thesaurus - Wikipedia

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    Thesaurus Linguae Latinae. A modern english thesaurus. A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms ...

  5. Literature-based discovery - Wikipedia

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    An example diagram of Swanson linking, usinc the ABC paradigm. Literature-based discovery (LBD), also called literature-related discovery (LRD) is a form of knowledge extraction and automated hypothesis generation that uses papers and other academic publications (the "literature") to find new relationships between existing knowledge (the "discovery").

  6. Glossary of literary terms - Wikipedia

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    Also apophthegm. A terse, pithy saying, akin to a proverb, maxim, or aphorism. aposiopesis A rhetorical device in which speech is broken off abruptly and the sentence is left unfinished. apostrophe A figure of speech in which a speaker breaks off from addressing the audience (e.g., in a play) and directs speech to a third party such as an opposing litigant or some other individual, sometimes ...

  7. Epiphany (feeling) - Wikipedia

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    An epiphany (from the ancient Greek ἐπιφάνεια, epiphanea, "manifestation, striking appearance") is an experience of a sudden and striking realization.Generally the term is used to describe a scientific breakthrough or a religious or philosophical discovery, but it can apply in any situation in which an enlightening realization allows a problem or situation to be understood from a new ...

  8. Discovery (observation) - Wikipedia

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    Discovery is the act of detecting something new, or something previously unrecognized as meaningful, "portal". In sciences and academic disciplines, discovery is the observation of new phenomena, new actions, or new events and involves providing new reasoning to explain the knowledge gathered through such observations, using knowledge previously acquired through abstract thought and from ...

  9. Discovery - Wikipedia

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    Discovery Alternative High School, a high school in South Kitsap School District, Washington Discovery School, Tegucigalpa , a bilingual English/Spanish school in Tegucigalpa, Honduras Discovery, a former primary school now part of Ao Tawhiti , a state area school in Christchurch, New Zealand