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  2. Tiefling - Wikipedia

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    Appearance. Tiefling fighter designed by William O'Connor for 4th Edition Dungeons & Dragons.[ 1 ] The tiefling (/ ˈtiːflɪŋ / TEEF-ling) [ 2 ] is a fictional humanoid race in the Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) fantasy roleplaying game. Originally introduced in the Planescape campaign setting in the second edition of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons as ...

  3. Suspension of disbelief - Wikipedia

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    Samuel Taylor Coleridge, a philosopher and writer known for his influence on English literature, coined the turn-of-phrase and elaborated upon it.. Suspension of disbelief is the avoidance—often described as willing—of critical thinking and logic in understanding something that is unreal or impossible in reality, such as something in a work of speculative fiction, in order to believe it ...

  4. Glossary of literary terms - Wikipedia

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    Literature. This glossary of literary terms is a list of definitions of terms and concepts used in the discussion, classification, analysis, and criticism of all types of literature, such as poetry, novels, and picture books, as well as of grammar, syntax, and language techniques. For a more complete glossary of terms relating to poetry in ...

  5. Aranyaka - Wikipedia

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    The Aranyakas (/ ɑːˈrʌnjəkəz /; Sanskrit: आरण्यक; IAST: āraṇyaka) are a part of the ancient Indian Vedas concerned with the meaning of ritual sacrifice. [1] They typically represent the later sections of the Vedas, and are one of many layers of Vedic texts. [2] The other parts of the Vedas are the Samhitas (benedictions ...

  6. Philology - Wikipedia

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    t. e. Philology (from Ancient Greek φιλολογία (philología) 'love of word') is the study of language in oral and written historical sources. It is the intersection of textual criticism, literary criticism, history, and linguistics with strong ties to etymology. [1][2][3] Philology is also defined as the study of literary texts and oral ...

  7. Planescape: Torment - Wikipedia

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    Single-player. Planescape: Torment is a 1999 role-playing video game developed by Black Isle Studios and published by Interplay Entertainment for Windows. The game takes place in locations from the multiverse of Planescape, a Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) fantasy campaign setting. The game's engine is a modified version of the Infinity Engine, which ...

  8. Critical literacy - Wikipedia

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    Critical literacy is the ability to find embedded discrimination in media. [1] [2] This is done by analyzing the messages promoting prejudiced power relationships found naturally in media and written material that go unnoticed otherwise by reading beyond the author's words and examining the manner in which the author has conveyed their ideas about society's norms to determine whether these ...

  9. Root mean square deviation - Wikipedia

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    Normalizing the RMSD facilitates the comparison between datasets or models with different scales. Though there is no consistent means of normalization in the literature, common choices are the mean or the range (defined as the maximum value minus the minimum value) of the measured data: [4]