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  2. Deathtrap (plot device) - Wikipedia

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    Example: The Joker traps the Dynamic Duo without the use of their utility belts in the bottom of an industrial smokestack and begins to gradually fill it with a deadly heavier-than-air gas. Escape method: The pair lock elbows and brace their backs against each other to walk up the smokestack to the top opening and slide down a support cable ...

  3. List of narrative techniques - Wikipedia

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    The author uses narrative and stylistic devices to create the sense of an unedited interior monologue, characterized by leaps in syntax and punctuation that trace a character's fragmentary thoughts and sensory feelings. The outcome is a highly lucid perspective with a plot. Not to be confused with free writing. An example is Ulysses. At one ...

  4. Rhetorical modes - Wikipedia

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    Expository writing is a type of writing where the purpose is to explain or inform the audience about a topic. [13] It is considered one of the four most common rhetorical modes. [14] The purpose of expository writing is to explain and analyze information by presenting an idea, relevant evidence, and appropriate discussion.

  5. Quibble (plot device) - Wikipedia

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    In fiction, a quibble is a plot device used to fulfill the exact verbal conditions of an agreement in order to avoid the intended meaning. Typically quibbles are used in legal bargains and, in fantasy , magically enforced ones such as prophecies .

  6. Chekhov's gun - Wikipedia

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    A rifle on display. Chekhov's gun (or Chekhov's rifle; Russian: Чеховское ружьё) is a narrative principle that states that every element in a story must be necessary and irrelevant elements should be removed.

  7. Poetic devices - Wikipedia

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    Poetic devices are a form of literary device used in poetry. Poems are created out of poetic devices via a composite of: structural, grammatical, rhythmic, metrical, verbal, and visual elements. [1] They are essential tools that a poet uses to create rhythm, enhance a poem's meaning, or intensify a mood or feeling. [2]

  8. Inclusio - Wikipedia

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    A rather far-flung example of inclusio in the Book of Jeremiah can be found in its first section, chapters 1–24, which are enveloped both by a similar question in the first and last episode (1:11, 24:3), and by similar imagery—that of almond rods and baskets of figs. Inclusio may also be found between chapters 36 and 45, both of which ...

  9. Mode (literature) - Wikipedia

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    In literature and other artistic media, a mode is an unspecific critical term usually designating a broad but identifiable kind of literary method, mood, or manner that is not tied exclusively to a particular form or genre. Examples are the satiric mode, the ironic, the comic, the pastoral, and the didactic. [1]