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  2. Glossary of literary terms - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. Suspended animation in fiction - Wikipedia

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    The Spanish soap opera Aurora (2010) centers around the theme of suspended animation, with the protagonist being frozen for 20 years before coming back to life and facing a changed world. In Star Trek: Voyager, the crew encounters aliens who placed themselves in suspended animation to escape a solar flare in the episode "The Thaw" (1996).

  4. Zeugma and syllepsis - Wikipedia

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    The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms offers a much broader definition for zeugma by defining it as any case of parallelism and ellipsis working together so that a single word governs two or more parts of a sentence. [17] Vicit pudorem libido timorem audacia rationem amentia. (Cicero, Pro Cluentio, VI.15)

  5. List of phobias - Wikipedia

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    The term is a piece of computer humor entered into the 1981 The Devil's DP Dictionary. [47] Anatidaephobia – the fictional fear that one is being watched by a duck. The word comes from the name of the family Anatidae, and was used in Gary Larson's The Far Side. [48] Anoraknophobia – a portmanteau of "anorak" and "arachnophobia".

  6. The Flying Dutchman (2000 film) - Wikipedia

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    The Flying Dutchman is an American film of 2000, directed by Robin P. Murray and starring Catherine Oxenberg, Eric Roberts, and Rod Steiger.. The movie has also been called Frozen in Fear [6] and is a re-working of The Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933) and House of Wax (1953).

  7. List of time travel works of fiction - Wikipedia

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    Satirical play – Frozen for fifty years, a worker is revived in 1979 and finds himself in a Communist utopia in which he doesn't fit and so becomes a specimen in a zoo showing the vices of the past. 1933 The Man Who Awoke: Laurence Manning: Norman Winters puts himself into suspended animation for 5,000 years at a time. 1935 The Box of Delights

  8. Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction - Wikipedia

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    Imagination magazine cover, depicting an atomic explosion, dated March 1954. The apocalypse event may be climatic, such as runaway climate change; natural, such as an impact event; man made, such as nuclear holocaust; medical, such as a plague or virus, whether natural or man-made; religious, such as the Rapture or Great Tribulation; or imaginative, such as zombie apocalypse or alien invasion.

  9. Paranoid fiction - Wikipedia

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    Paranoid fiction is a term sometimes used to describe works of literature that explore the subjective nature of reality and how it can be manipulated by forces in power. [1] These forces can be external, such as a totalitarian government, or they can be internal, such as a character's mental illness or refusal to accept the harshness of the ...