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  2. Wikipedia:How to write a plot summary - Wikipedia

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    A summary is not meant to reproduce the experience of reading or watching the work. In fact, readers might be here because they didn't understand the original. Just repeating what they have already seen or read is unlikely to help them. Do not attempt to re-create the emotional impact of the work through the plot summary.

  3. Epigraph (literature) - Wikipedia

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    An unusual example is The Stand wherein he uses lyrics from certain songs to express the metaphor used in a particular part. Epigraph, consisting of an excerpt from the book itself, William Morris's The House of the Wolfings. Jack London uses the first stanza of John Myers O'Hara's poem "Atavism" as the epigraph to The Call of the Wild.

  4. Outline of books - Wikipedia

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    Advance copy – a free promotional copy of a book given by a publisher to booksellers, librarians, journalists, or others, or as a contest or school prize, before the book is printed for mass distribution. Alphabet book – a book primarily designed for young children representing letters of the alphabet with corresponding words and/or images.

  5. Stanza - Wikipedia

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    The stanza has also been known by terms such as batch, fit, and stave. [2] The term stanza has a similar meaning to strophe, though strophe sometimes refers to an irregular set of lines, as opposed to regular, rhymed stanzas. [3] Even though the term "stanza" is taken from Italian, in the Italian language the word "strofa" is more commonly used.

  6. Icelandic magical staves - Wikipedia

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    A stave used when making necropants , a pair of trousers made from the skin of a dead man that are capable of producing an endless supply of money. [7] Skelkunarstafur: To make your enemies afraid. [8] (A similar looking stave is titled Óttastafur in the Huld Manuscript.) Rosahringur minni: A lesser circle of protection. [2] Smjörhnútur

  7. Liebig's law of the minimum - Wikipedia

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    Liebig's law has been extended to biological populations (and is commonly used in ecosystem modelling).For example, the growth of an organism such as a plant may be dependent on a number of different factors, such as sunlight or mineral nutrients (e.g., nitrate or phosphate).

  8. Alliterative verse - Wikipedia

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    The head-stave is the first stressed syllable in the second line in each pair, which must alliterate with at least one stress in the preceding line. The alliterating stresses in the first line in each pair are called props, or studlar , following the usual Germanic rules about which consonants alliterate.

  9. Lead paragraph - Wikipedia

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    A lead paragraph (sometimes shortened to lead; in the United States sometimes spelled lede) is the opening paragraph of an article, book chapter, or other written work that summarizes its main ideas. [1] Styles vary widely among the different types and genres of publications, from journalistic news-style leads to a more encyclopaedic variety.