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  2. Character (arts) - Wikipedia

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    Dynamic characters are those that change over the course of the story, while static characters remain the same throughout. An example of a popular dynamic character in literature is Ebenezer Scrooge, the protagonist of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. At the start of the story, he is a bitter miser, but by the end of the tale, he ...

  3. Dynamics (music) - Wikipedia

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    In music, the dynamics of a piece are the variation in loudness between notes or phrases.Dynamics are indicated by specific musical notation, often in some detail.However, dynamics markings require interpretation by the performer depending on the musical context: a specific marking may correspond to a different volume between pieces or even sections of one piece.

  4. Image schema - Wikipedia

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    They exist both as static and dynamic version, describing both states and processes, [2] compare Containment vs. Going_In/Out, and they are learned from all sensorimodalities. Evidence for image schemas is drawn from a number of related disciplines, including work on cross-modal cognition in psychology , from spatial cognition in both ...

  5. Music theory - Wikipedia

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    The method employed to answer this question, and indeed exactly what is meant by the question, differs from analyst to analyst, and according to the purpose of the analysis. According to Ian Bent , "analysis, as a pursuit in its own right, came to be established only in the late 19th century; its emergence as an approach and method can be ...

  6. Dynamic semantics - Wikipedia

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    Dynamic semantics is a framework in logic and natural language semantics that treats the meaning of a sentence as its potential to update a context. In static semantics, knowing the meaning of a sentence amounts to knowing when it is true; in dynamic semantics, knowing the meaning of a sentence means knowing "the change it brings about in the information state of anyone who accepts the news ...

  7. Stative verb - Wikipedia

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    According to some linguistics theories, a stative verb is a verb that describes a state of being, in contrast to a dynamic verb, which describes an action.The difference can be categorized by saying that stative verbs describe situations that are static, or unchanging throughout their entire duration, whereas dynamic verbs describe processes that entail change over time. [1]

  8. List of Bridge to Terabithia characters - Wikipedia

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    Jesse Oliver Aarons, Jr. is a fictional character in the book Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson.He is based on her son. [1] He is played by Julian Coutts [2] in the 1985 film and by Josh Hutcherson in the 2007 film. [3]

  9. Equations of motion - Wikipedia

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    There are two main descriptions of motion: dynamics and kinematics.Dynamics is general, since the momenta, forces and energy of the particles are taken into account. In this instance, sometimes the term dynamics refers to the differential equations that the system satisfies (e.g., Newton's second law or Euler–Lagrange equations), and sometimes to the solutions to those equations.