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  2. Embodied writing - Wikipedia

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    In dance theory, choreographic writing (a form of embodied writing) is done by imagining words as dancing across a page. [5] Others use forms of yoga to more deeply connect the body to the writing. [6] Each of these practices aims to create more awareness of the sensation of the body in space and to think of writing as a physical act.

  3. Literal and figurative language - Wikipedia

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    Uses of figurative language, or figures of speech, can take multiple forms, such as simile, metaphor, hyperbole, and many others. [12] Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature says that figurative language can be classified in five categories: resemblance or relationship, emphasis or understatement, figures of sound, verbal games, and errors.

  4. Mirror writing - Wikipedia

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    Mirror writing on the hood of an ambulance in Australia. Mirror writing is formed by writing in the direction that is the reverse of the natural way for a given language, such that the result is the mirror image of normal writing: it appears normal when reflected in a mirror. It is sometimes used as an extremely primitive form of cipher.

  5. The charming story of Miskel Spillman, the 80-year-old ...

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    In the end, the public voted via snail mail for a person who embodied perhaps the exact opposite of both — Miskel Spillman, an elderly widow whose first plane ride ever brought her to New York ...

  6. Ambigram - Wikipedia

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    Vertical axis mirror ambigrams find clever applications in mirror writing (or specular writing), that is formed by writing in the direction that is the reverse of the natural way for a given language, such that the result is the mirror image of normal writing: it appears normal when it is reflected in a mirror. For example, the word "ambulance ...

  7. Foil (narrative) - Wikipedia

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    Don Quixote and his sidekick Sancho Panza, as illustrated by Gustave Doré: the characters' contrasting qualities [1] are reflected here even in their physical appearances. In any narrative, a foil is a character who contrasts with another character, typically, a character who contrasts with the protagonist, in order to better highlight or differentiate certain qualities of the protagonist.

  8. Other (philosophy) - Wikipedia

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    The founder of phenomenology, Edmund Husserl, identified the Other as one of the conceptual bases of intersubjectivity, of the relations among people. In philosophy, the Other is a fundamental concept referring to anyone or anything perceived as distinct or different from oneself.

  9. Anima and animus - Wikipedia

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    Jung believed that the anima and the animus manifest themselves by appearing in dreams and influence a person's attitudes and interactions with the opposite sex. A natural understanding of another member of the opposite sex is instilled in individuals that stems from constant subjection to members of the opposite sex.