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Stock characters from Commedia dell'Arte — which gave each character a standard costume, so easily identifiable — continued across many types of theater, dramatic storytelling, and fiction. A stock character is a dramatic or literary character representing a generic type in a conventional, simplified manner and recurring in many fictional ...
List of The A-Team characters; List of Adrian Mole characters; List of fictional anarchists; List of angels in fiction; List of fictional Antichrists; List of fictional assassins and bounty hunters; List of autistic fictional characters
Omnicide – the act of killing all humans, to create intentional extinction of the human species (Latin: omni "all, everyone"). Pedocide – the act of killing children. Serial killer - a person who murders three or more people, with the killings taking place over a significant period of time in separate events.
List of Where the Red Fern Grows characters; List of characters played by multiple actors in the same film; List of fictional cats in film; List of fictional primates in film; List of films with LGBT characters; List of The Godfather series characters; List of minor characters in The Matrix series; List of original characters in The Hobbit film ...
Also apophthegm. A terse, pithy saying, akin to a proverb, maxim, or aphorism. aposiopesis A rhetorical device in which speech is broken off abruptly and the sentence is left unfinished. apostrophe A figure of speech in which a speaker breaks off from addressing the audience (e.g., in a play) and directs speech to a third party such as an opposing litigant or some other individual, sometimes ...
imaginary friend of the title character in Jojo Rabbit: Billy Murdock's invisible dog in The A-Team: Bing Bong childhood friend of Riley in Inside Out: Blue Jeremy's childhood imaginary friend and several other characters in IF: Captain Excellent Paper Man: Chauncey Imaginary: Drop Dead Fred Drop Dead Fred: Elvis Presley: True Romance: Eric ...
List of A Series of Unfortunate Events characters; List of The Shapeshifter characters; List of Shiloh characters; List of So I'm a Spider, So What characters; List of A Song of Ice and Fire characters; List of The Southern Vampire Mysteries characters; List of Star Trek: New Frontier characters; List of Stuart Little characters; List of ...
Name Definition Example Setting as a form of symbolism or allegory: The setting is both the time and geographic location within a narrative or within a work of fiction; sometimes, storytellers use the setting as a way to represent deeper ideas, reflect characters' emotions, or encourage the audience to make certain connections that add complexity to how the story may be interpreted.