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A plot twist is a literary technique that introduces a radical change in the direction or expected outcome of the plot in a work of fiction. [1] When it happens near the end of a story, it is known as a twist ending or surprise ending. [2]
In the last two decades, the volta has become conventionally used as a word for this, stemming supposedly from technique specific mostly to sonnets. Volta is not, in fact, a term used by many earlier critics [1] when they address the idea of a turn in a poem, and they usually are not discussing the sonnet form. It is a common Italian word more ...
Torticollis, also known as wry neck, is a painful, dystonic condition defined by an abnormal, asymmetrical head or neck position, which may be due to a variety of causes. The term torticollis is derived from Latin tortus 'twisted' and collum 'neck'.
When they’re not getting turned away at the door for wearing green face paint (Ozplaying, as it were), enthusiastic cinemagoers have been singing along with the musical numbers, to the ...
In the film, he doesn't receive the album right away. Instead, a young Elwood sees King's speech "Our God is Marching On" on a store's TV display. Years later, his teacher Mr. Hill plays a ...
Taylor Swift is getting emotional as her continents-spanning Eras Tour approaches its end.. On Saturday, Nov. 23, the pop songstress, 34, teared up onstage as she received a standing ovation ...
One way to embed the Möbius strip in three-dimensional Euclidean space is to sweep it out by a line segment rotating in a plane, which in turn rotates around one of its lines. [23] For the swept surface to meet up with itself after a half-twist, the line segment should rotate around its center at half the angular velocity of the plane's rotation.
The torsion mangonel myth, or simply the myth of the mangonel, [1] is the belief that the mangonel (or traction trebuchet) was a torsion siege engine which used the tension effect of twisted cords to shoot projectiles, and is considered by some to have been in use until the arrival of gunpowder artillery.