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  2. Storytelling - Wikipedia

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    Storytelling is a means for sharing and interpreting experiences. Peter L. Berger says human life is narratively rooted, humans construct their lives and shape their world into homes in terms of these groundings and memories. Stories are universal in that they can bridge cultural, linguistic and age-related divides.

  3. List of English back-formations - Wikipedia

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    babysit from babysitter[2][4] back-form from back-formation. bartend from bartender[5] beg from beggar[dubious – discuss] benefact from benefactor (and also the derived benefactee, cf. benefactor) berserk from berserker. bibliograph from bibliography. bicep from biceps (non-standard) [2] biograph from biography.

  4. List of fallacies - Wikipedia

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    List of paradoxes. Outline of public relations – Overview of and topical guide to public relations. Map–territory relation – Relationship between an object and a representation of that object (confusing map with territory, menu with meal) Mathematical fallacy – Certain type of mistaken proof.

  5. List of narrative techniques - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. List of Generation Z slang - Wikipedia

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    List of Generation Z slang. Appearance. "If You Know You Know" redirects here. For the Pusha T song, see If You Know You Know (song). The following is a list of slang that is used or popularized by Generation Z (Gen Z), generally those born between the late 1990s and early 2010s in the Western world.

  7. Clipping (morphology) - Wikipedia

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    Clipping (morphology) In linguistics, clipping, also called truncation or shortening, [1] is word formation by removing some segments of an existing word to create a diminutive word or a clipped compound. Clipping differs from abbreviation, which is based on a shortening of the written, rather than the spoken, form of an existing word or phrase ...

  8. Cinematic techniques - Wikipedia

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    Movement can be used extensively by film makers to make meaning. It is how a scene is put together to produce an image. A famous example of this, which uses "dance" extensively to communicate meaning and emotion, is the film, West Side Story. Provided in this alphabetised list of film techniques used in motion picture filmmaking. There are a ...

  9. Flashback (narrative) - Wikipedia

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    Flashback (narrative) A flashback is an interjected scene that takes the narrative back in time from the current point in the story. [1] Flashbacks are often used to recount events that happened before the story's primary sequence of events to fill in crucial backstory. [2] In the opposite direction, a flashforward (or prolepsis) reveals events ...