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  2. Opening sentence - Wikipedia

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    Techniques to hold the reader's attention include keeping the opening sentence to the point, showing attitude, shocking, and being controversial. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] One of the most famous opening lines, " It was the best of times, it was the worst of times ", starts a sentence of 118 words [ 4 ] that draws the reader in by its contradiction; the first ...

  3. Cut-up technique - Wikipedia

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    A text created from lines of a newspaper tourism article. The cut-up technique (or découpé in French) is an aleatory narrative technique in which a written text is cut up and rearranged to create a new text.

  4. List of linguistic example sentences - Wikipedia

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    A famous example for lexical ambiguity is the following sentence: "Wenn hinter Fliegen Fliegen fliegen, fliegen Fliegen Fliegen hinterher.", meaning "When flies fly behind flies, then flies fly in pursuit of flies." [40] [circular reference] It takes advantage of some German nouns and corresponding verbs being homonymous. While not noticeable ...

  5. Flarf poetry - Wikipedia

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    In a larger aesthetic economy, it seems, "the truth will out". Flarf's recent productivity shows how the injunction against the sentence, paragraph, narrative, and even discourse from some sectors of the Language school intersects with actual conditions of language use. Any such thing as stylistic norms in the avant-garde must inevitably ...

  6. Disturbance - Wikipedia

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    Disturbance (archaeology), any change to an archaeological site due to events after the site was laid down Disturbance (ecology), a temporary change in average environmental conditions that causes a pronounced change in an ecosystem

  7. Profanity - Wikipedia

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    Profanity is often depicted in images by grawlixes, which substitute symbols for words.. Profanity, also known as swearing, cursing, or cussing, involves the use of notionally offensive words for a variety of purposes, including to demonstrate disrespect or negativity, to relieve pain, to express a strong emotion, as a grammatical intensifier or emphasis, or to express informality or ...

  8. Discourse marker - Wikipedia

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    A discourse marker is a word or a phrase that plays a role in managing the flow and structure of discourse.Since their main function is at the level of discourse (sequences of utterances) rather than at the level of utterances or sentences, discourse markers are relatively syntax-independent and usually do not change the truth conditional meaning of the sentence. [1]

  9. Horror and terror - Wikipedia

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    Acceptance; Admiration; Affection; Amusement; Anger; Angst; Anguish; Annoyance; Anticipation; Anxiety; Apathy; Arousal; Awe; Belongingness; Boredom; Confidence ...