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  2. Postpositive adjective - Wikipedia

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    Similar behavior is displayed by many adjectives with the suffix -able or -ible (e.g. the best room available, the only decision possible, the worst choice imaginable, the persons liable). Certain other adjectives with a sense similar to those in the foregoing categories are customarily found postpositively ( all the people present , the first ...

  3. Runcible - Wikipedia

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    The Runcible Spoon, in Rye, England; the sign shows an owl and a pussy-cat. "Runcible" is a pseudoword invented by Edward Lear.The word appears (as an adjective) several times in his works, most famously as the "runcible spoon" used by the Owl and the Pussycat. [1]

  4. Category:Video games based on novels - Wikipedia

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    If the game directly references content or design from another adaptation of literature, such as a movie, it is no longer considered to be based "solely" on the original literature and is instead based on the new derivative work. Legendary characters such as Zeus, King Arthur or Robin Hood are based on a loose series of tales and mythology. For ...

  5. Absurdist fiction - Wikipedia

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    Absurdist fiction is a genre of novels, plays, poems, films, or other media that focuses on the experiences of characters in situations where they cannot find any inherent purpose in life, most often represented by ultimately meaningless actions and events that call into question the certainty of existential concepts such as truth or value. [1]

  6. Ability - Wikipedia

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    Abilities are powers an agent has to perform various actions.They include common abilities, like walking, and rare abilities, like performing a double backflip. Abilities are intelligent powers: they are guided by the person's intention and executing them successfully results in an action, which is not true for all types of powers.

  7. Video game piracy - Wikipedia

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    The Big House ran SSB games on the Dolphin emulator, and it was the addition of the mod Slippi, which enabled online play, that caught Nintendo's attention. [19] Despite longstanding criticism of emulators in the game industry, companies themselves have used emulation to run commercial games.

  8. Electronic literature - Wikipedia

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    Electronic literature or digital literature is a genre of literature where digital capabilities such as interactivity, multimodality or algorithmic text generation are used aesthetically. [1] Works of electronic literature are usually intended to be read on digital devices, such as computers , tablets , and mobile phones .

  9. Indeterminacy (literature) - Wikipedia

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    Indeterminacy in literature is a situation in which components of a text require the reader to make their own decisions about the text's meaning. (Baldick 2008) This can occur if the text's ending does not provide full closure and there are still questions to be answered, or when "the language is such that the author’s original intention is not known".