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  2. Sankofa - Wikipedia

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    The sankofa symbol. Sankofa (pronounced SAHN-koh-fah) is a word in the Twi language of Ghana meaning “to retrieve" (literally "go back and get"; san - to return; ko - to go; fa - to fetch, to seek and take) and also refers to the Bono Adinkra symbol represented either with a stylized heart shape or by a bird with its head turned backwards while its feet face forward carrying a precious egg ...

  3. Flashback (narrative) - Wikipedia

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    If flashbacks are presented in non-chronological order, the time at which the story takes place can be ambiguous: An example of such an occurrence is in Slaughterhouse-Five where the narrative jumps back and forth in time, so there is no actual present time line. Os Lusíadas is a story about a voyage of Vasco da Gama to India and back.

  4. Akathisia - Wikipedia

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    Other noted signs include rocking back and forth, fidgeting, and pacing. [7] However, not all observable restless motion is akathisia. For example, while mania, agitated depression, and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder may present like akathisia, movements resulting from them feel voluntary, rather than being due to restlessness. [17]

  5. Zig zag (railway) - Wikipedia

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    Zig zags tend to be cheaper to construct because the grades required are discontinuous. Civil engineers can generally find a series of shorter segments going back and forth up the side of a hill more easily and with less grading than they can a continuous grade, which must contend with the larger scale geography of the hills to be surmounted.

  6. List of narrative techniques - Wikipedia

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    Name Definition Example Setting as a form of symbolism or allegory: The setting is both the time and geographic location within a narrative or within a work of fiction; sometimes, storytellers use the setting as a way to represent deeper ideas, reflect characters' emotions, or encourage the audience to make certain connections that add complexity to how the story may be interpreted.

  7. Palindrome - Wikipedia

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    The longest single-word palindrome in the Oxford English Dictionary is the 12-letter onomatopoeic word tattarrattat, coined by James Joyce in Ulysses (1922) for a knock on the door. [ 35 ] [ 36 ] [ 37 ] The Guinness Book of Records gives the title to the 11-letter detartrated , the preterite and past participle of detartrate , a chemical term ...

  8. Hyposensitivity - Wikipedia

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    Rocking back and forth or walking in circles while body rocking. Can spin or swing for a long time without feeling dizzy or nauseated. Trouble with balance. Proprioceptive hyposensitivity symptoms include: Unaware of body sensations. For example, not noticing hunger. Limited spatial awareness. Difficulty knowing where the body is in space.

  9. Enantiodromia - Wikipedia

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    For example, it has been applied to the subject of the film The Lives of Others, to show how one devoted to a communist regime breaks through his loyalty and emerges a humanist. In particular, Jung used the term to refer to the unconscious acting against the wishes of the conscious mind , updating the Greek concept of akrasia in modern ...