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  2. Aesthetic illusion - Wikipedia

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    The term aesthetic illusion is primarily, though not consistently, used in the academic fields of literature and the visual arts. Other terms used in these fields to describe the same or a similar phenomenon include absorption (Nell 1988 [ 3 ] ), make-believe , recentering (Ryan 1991 [ 4 ] ) and immersion (e.g. Ryan 2015 [ 5 ] ).

  3. Illusion - Wikipedia

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    An auditory illusion is an illusion of hearing, the auditory equivalent of a visual illusion: the listener hears either sounds which are not present in the stimulus, or "impossible" sounds. In short, audio illusions highlight areas where the human ear and brain, as organic, makeshift tools, differ from perfect audio receptors (for better or for ...

  4. List of optical illusions - Wikipedia

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    The Hering illusion (1861): When two straight and parallel lines are presented in front of radial background (like the spokes of a bicycle), the lines appear as if they were bowed outwards. Hollow-Face illusion: The Hollow-Face illusion is an optical illusion in which the perception of a concave mask of a face appears as a normal convex face.

  5. Optical illusion - Wikipedia

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    The Ponzo illusion is an example of an illusion which uses monocular cues of depth perception to fool the eye. But even with two-dimensional images, the brain exaggerates vertical distances when compared with horizontal distances, as in the vertical–horizontal illusion where the two lines are exactly the same length.

  6. Hobson's choice - Wikipedia

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    A Hobson's choice is a free choice in which only one thing is actually offered. The term is often used to describe an illusion that choices are available. The best known Hobson's choice is "I'll give you a choice: take it or leave it", wherein "leaving it" is strongly undesirable.

  7. Paradox of fiction - Wikipedia

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    Third is the illusion or realist theories, for example from Alan Paskow. The illusion theories deny premise 3 and claim that, in a way, the fictional characters are real. They suggest that Samuel Taylor Coleridge was right in saying that fiction involves a "willing suspension of disbelief", i.e. believing in the fiction while engaging with it.

  8. Divine Comedy in popular culture - Wikipedia

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    [5] "A Complaynt to His Lady," an early short poem, is written in terza rima , the rhyme scheme Dante invented for the Comedy . Anelida and Arcite ends with a " compleynt " by Anelida, the lover jilted by Arcite; the compleynt begins with the phrase "So thirleth with the poynt of remembraunce" and ends with "Hath thirled with the poynt of ...

  9. Magical realism - Wikipedia

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    Magical realism is the most commonly used of the three terms and refers to literature in particular. [2]: 15 Magic realism often refers to literature in particular, with magical or supernatural phenomena presented in an otherwise real-world or mundane setting, commonly found in novels and dramatic performances.