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  2. Closed-ended question - Wikipedia

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    Where did you steal the money? ("From the bank.") At the same time, there are closed-ended questions that are sometimes impossible to answer correctly with a yes or no without confusion, for example: "Have you stopped taking heroin?" (if you never took it) or "Who told you to take heroin?"; see "loaded question".

  3. Indirect tests of memory - Wikipedia

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    Indirect memory tests assess the retention of information without direct reference to the source of information. Participants are given tasks designed to elicit knowledge that was acquired incidentally or unconsciously and is evident when performance shows greater inclination towards items initially presented than new items. [ 1 ]

  4. Straw man - Wikipedia

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    Reverend William Harrison, in A Description of England (1577), complained that when men lived in houses of willow they were men of oak, but now they lived in houses of oak and had become men of willow and "a great manie altogither of straw, which is a sore alteration [i.e. a sad change]." [21] The phrase men of straw appears to refer to ...

  5. The Guild Counsel: SWTOR is stealing my (character) identity!

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    Guild leading is often as much about managing personalities as it is about managing the nuts and bolts of the game. In previous columns, we've looked at all sorts of issues that guild leaders have ...

  6. Law & Order accused of stealing character from real life. Duh!

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  7. Stochastic terrorism - Wikipedia

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    Stochastic terrorism is a form of political violence instigated by hostile public rhetoric directed at a group or an individual. Unlike incitement to terrorism, stochastic terrorism is accomplished with indirect, vague or coded language, which grants the instigator plausible deniability for any associated violence. [1]

  8. Glossary of literary terms - Wikipedia

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    flat character foil folio folk drama folklore foot foreshadowing form fourteener frame story A story which contains either another tale (i.e. a story within a story) or a series of stories. Well-known examples include the One Thousand and One Arabian Nights and Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. [2] free indirect discourse free verse

  9. I Decided to Publish the Sony Hack Emails 10 Years Ago. Now I ...

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    Exactly 10 years ago today, I published a commentary defending the decision to publish the contents of the Sony hack in Variety, the publication where I then served as co-editor-in-chief.. Listen ...