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  2. Blues for Mister Charlie - Wikipedia

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    Blues for Mister Charlie is James Baldwin's second play, a social commentary drama in three acts. It was first produced and published in 1964. [1] The play is dedicated to the memory of Medgar Evers, his widow and children, and to the memory of the dead children of Birmingham."

  3. In medias res - Wikipedia

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    Works that employ in medias res often later use flashback and nonlinear narrative for exposition to fill in the backstory. In Homer's Odyssey, the reader first learns about Odysseus's journey when he is held captive on Calypso's island. The reader then finds out, in Books IX through XII, that the greater part of Odysseus's journey precedes that ...

  4. Stylistic device - Wikipedia

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    The repetition of identical or similar sounds, usually accented vowel sounds and succeeding consonant sounds at the end of words, and often at the ends of lines of prose or poetry. [7] For example, in the following lines from a poem by A. E. Housman, the last words of both lines rhyme with each other. Loveliest of trees, the cherry now

  5. Flashback (narrative) - Wikipedia

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    A flashback, more formally known as analepsis, is an interjected scene that takes the narrative back in time from the current point in the story. [1] Flashbacks are often used to recount events that happened before the story's primary sequence of events to fill in crucial backstory. [2]

  6. Interloper - Wikipedia

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    Interloper, Interlopers or The Interlopers may refer to: Entertainment. The Interloper: Lee Harvey Oswald Inside the Soviet Union, a 2013 book by Peter Savodnik;

  7. Flashforward - Wikipedia

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    The first instance of this was a major plot twist in the third season finale: what appeared to be a flashback to before the characters were stranded on the island, was revealed at the end of the two-part episode to be a flashforward of them returned to civilization.

  8. The Interloper - Wikipedia

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    Kitty Gordon - Jane Cameron; Irving Cummings - Paul Whitney; Warren Cook - Whitney Pere; Isabel Berwin - Mrs. Whitney; June Blackman - Aunt Patricia; Frank Mayo - Edmond Knapp; George MacQuarrie - Courtney Carvel

  9. Poetic contraction - Wikipedia

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    Poetic contractions are contractions of words found in poetry but not commonly used in everyday modern English. Also known as elision or syncope, these contractions are usually used to lower the number of syllables in a particular word in order to adhere to the meter of a composition. [1]