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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 ...
Name Definition Example Setting as a form of symbolism or allegory: The setting is both the time and geographic location within a narrative or within a work of fiction; sometimes, storytellers use the setting as a way to represent deeper ideas, reflect characters' emotions, or encourage the audience to make certain connections that add complexity to how the story may be interpreted.
Request writings are obtained from an individual specifically for the purposes of conducting a handwriting comparison whereas collected writings are samples the individual produced for some other, unrelated reason generally in the course of their day-to-day activities. The two types of exemplars are complementary to one another.
Let V be a finite-dimensional vector space over k....Let (e i) 1≤ i ≤ n be a basis for V....There is an isomorphism of the polynomial algebra k[T ij] 1≤ i, j ≤ n onto the algebra Sym k (V ⊗ V *)....It extends to an isomorphism of k[GL n] to the localized algebra Sym k (V ⊗ V *) D, where D = det(e i ⊗ e j *)....We write k[GL(V ...
Fabulation: A class composed mostly of 20th-century novels that are in a style similar to magical realism, and do not fit into the traditional categories of realism. Folklore (folktale) Animal tale; Fable: short story that anthropomorphizes non-humans to illustrate a moral lesson; Fairy tale; Ghost story
In textual criticism, an exemplar is the text used to produce another text. In the study of the history of a text an especially important exemplar is that which precedes any split in the tradition of that text, that is, before significant textual variations occur in different versions: such an exemplar is called an archetype .
The mathematical models used to describe the swinging of a clock pendulum, the flow of water in a pipe, or the number of fish each spring in a lake are examples of dynamical systems. List of dynamical systems and differential equations topics; List of nonlinear partial differential equations; List of partial differential equation topics
Myth – an ancient story often meant to explain the mysteries of life or nature. News – information on current events which is presented by print, broadcast, Internet, or word of mouth to a third party or mass audience. Nonlinear narrative – a story whose plot does not conform to conventional chronology, causality, and/or perspective.