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  2. Characterization - Wikipedia

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    A character's voice is their manner of speech. [10] Different characters use different vocabularies and rhythms of speech. For example, some characters are talkative, others taciturn. The way a character speaks can be a powerful way of revealing the character's personality.

  3. Definite description - Wikipedia

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    In formal semantics and philosophy of language, a definite description is a denoting phrase in the form of "the X" where X is a noun-phrase or a singular common noun.The definite description is proper if X applies to a unique individual or object.

  4. Lovable rogue - Wikipedia

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    The lovable rogue is generally regarded as handsome or attractive and his daredevil attitude further makes him sexually desirable to other characters. He often has a fiery temper and is streetwise—possessing practical knowledge—usually having self-taught and never been educated in a formal setting.

  5. First-person narrative - Wikipedia

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    Three notable examples are The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, where the narrator is Death, From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, where the narrator is the titular character but is describing the story of the main characters, and The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold, where a young girl, having been killed, observes, from some post ...

  6. Description - Wikipedia

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    Description is any type of communication that aims to make vivid a place, object, person, group, or other physical entity. [1] It is one of four rhetorical modes (also known as modes of discourse ), along with exposition , argumentation , and narration .

  7. Theory of descriptions - Wikipedia

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    Take as an example of an indefinite description the sentence "some dog is annoying". Russell analyses this phrase into the following component parts (with 'x' and 'y' representing variables): Russell analyses this phrase into the following component parts (with 'x' and 'y' representing variables):

  8. Wonder Woman - Wikipedia

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    Wonder Woman's character was created during World War II; the character in the story was initially depicted fighting Axis forces as well as an assortment of colorful supervillains, although over time her stories came to place greater emphasis on characters, deities, and monsters from Greek mythology.

  9. Rule of three (writing) - Wikipedia

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    The rule of three can refer to a collection of three words, phrases, sentences, lines, paragraphs/stanzas, chapters/sections of writing and even whole books. [2] [4] The three elements together are known as a triad. [5] The technique is used not just in prose, but also in poetry, oral storytelling, films, and advertising.