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A false ending is a device in film and music that can be used to trick the audience into thinking that the work has ended, before it continues. The presence of a false ending can be anticipated through a number of ways. The medium itself might betray that the story will continue beyond the false ending.
For example, there are four possible endings to the 2012 video game Spec Ops: The Line, and three of the endings are chosen by what the player does in the epilogue. Epilogues may also be presented as peripheral downloadable content or expansion packs that supplements the main content or campaign mode of a game.
For example, if the writer wanted to rewrite the above examples, he could write: Bells rang. Their resonance filled the air with clangor, startling pigeons into flight from every belfry. Upon hearing the sounds, the townspeople rushed into the streets. They all stood in silence and awaited the news. She drove to the movies.
An alternate ending (or alternative ending) is an ending of a story that was considered, or even written or produced, but ultimately discarded in favour of another resolution. Generally, alternative endings are considered to have no bearing on the canonical narrative.
A verb may have either a first aorist or a second aorist: the distinction is like that between weak (try, tried) and strong verbs (write, wrote) in English.But the distinction can be better described by considering the second aorist as showing the actual verb stem when the present has a morph to designate present stem, like -σκ-, or reduplication with ι as in δίδωμι.
A masculine ending and feminine ending or weak ending are terms used in prosody, the study of verse form. In general, "masculine ending" refers to a line ending in a stressed syllable; "feminine ending" is its opposite, describing a line ending in a stressless syllable. The terms originate from a grammatical pattern of the French language.
Loose Ends (radio programme), a British radio programme "Loose Ends" (Burn Notice), an episode of Burn Notice "Loose Ends" , an episode of Justified; Loose Ends, a 2001 novel based on the television series Roswell; Loose Ends, a novella by Paul Levinson; Loose Ends, a 1930 film starring Owen Nares; Loose Ends, a play by Michael Weller
(b) When a line with a blunt ending such as iambic (x – u –) is made catalectic, the result is a line with a pendant ending (u – x). An example of a blunt line becoming pendant in catalexis is Goethe's poem Heidenröslein, [2] or, in the same metre, the English carol Good King Wenceslas: Good King Wenceslas looked out, (4 beats, blunt)