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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 ...
Narration is the use of a written or spoken commentary to convey a story to an audience. [1] Narration is conveyed by a narrator: a specific person, or unspecified literary voice, developed by the creator of the story to deliver information to the audience, particularly about the plot: the series of events.
An antonym is one of a pair of words with opposite meanings. Each word in the pair is the antithesis of the other. A word may have more than one antonym. There are three categories of antonyms identified by the nature of the relationship between the opposed meanings.
A narrator is a person who tells a story to the audience. Narrator may also refer to: Unreliable narrator, a narrator whose credibility is compromised; The Narrator , the narrator of the 1996 novel Fight Club and its adaptations; The Narrator (Pushing Daisies), the narrator of the ABC television series, Pushing Daisies
Diegesis (/ ˌ d aɪ ə ˈ dʒ iː s ɪ s /; from Ancient Greek διήγησις (diḗgēsis) ' narration, narrative ', from διηγεῖσθαι (diēgeîsthai) ' to narrate ') is a style of fiction storytelling in which a participating narrator offers an on-site, often interior, view of the scene to the reader, viewer, or listener by subjectively describing the actions and, in some cases ...
Narratology is the study of narrative and narrative structure and the ways that these affect human perception. [1] The term is an anglicisation of French narratologie, coined by Tzvetan Todorov (Grammaire du Décaméron, 1969). [2]
Multiperspectivity (sometimes polyperspectivity) is a characteristic of narration or representation, where more than one perspective is represented to the audience. [1]Most frequently the term is applied to fiction which employs multiple narrators, often in opposition to each-other or to illuminate different elements of a plot, [1] creating what is sometimes called a multiple narrative, [2] [3 ...
Life in Kowloon Walled City has often inspired the dystopian identity in modern media works. [1]A dystopia (from Ancient Greek δυσ (dus) ' bad ' and τόπος (tópos) ' place '), also called a cacotopia [2] or anti-utopia, is a community or society that is extremely bad or frightening.