The term plot can serve as a verb and refer to a character planning future actions in the story. In the narrative sense, the term highlights the important points which have important consequences within the story, according to Ansen Dibell.
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1 MacGuffin: A plot device which nobody actually uses, and whose nature and identity are basically irrelevant. 2  Magnetic Plot Device: A plot device whose very presence causes things to happen.  Plot Coupon: An object necessary to continue or resolve the plot.
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— LittleshyFiM on the usage of this trope on My Little Pony: Equestria Girls  Rainbow Rocksnote For added humour, the TV Tropes logo appears as he says this. A plot device is an object or character in the story whose purpose is purely to drive the Plot, maintain its flow, or resolve situations within it. It could be something everybody wants to obtain, a device that must be destroyed, or an annoying teenager who must be protected at all costs.
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Plot is the cause‐and‐effect sequence of events in a story. Plot refers to the sequence of events inside a story which affect other events through the principle of cause and effect. The causal events of a plot can be thought of as a series of sentences linked by and so. Plots can vary from simple structures such as in a traditional ballad to complex interwoven structures sometimes referred to as an imbroglio.
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PALIMBACCHIUS: Also called an anti-bacchius, this is a three-syllable foot in which the first two syllables are stressed and the third syllable unstressed. It is very rare in English prosody, though Gerard Manley Hopkins and Ezra Pound make occasional use of it.
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1 Magnetic Plot Device: A plot device whose very presence causes things to happen. 2  Plot Coupon: An object necessary to continue or resolve the plot. 3  Plot Coupon That Does Something: A plot coupon that has uses beyond clearing a particular obstacle.  Sword of Plot Advancement: A plot device that can kill stuff.
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PALINDROME: A word, sentence, or verse that reads the same way backward or foreward. Certain words in English naturally function as palindromes: for instance, civic, rotor, race car, radar, level and so on. However, when individuals seek to combine several words at once, the result becomes a sort of perverse art.
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Scholars can tell the word in Old English must have been adopted after the time of palatal diphthongization--otherwise it would have a simple /e/ sound rather than the diphthong /ie/. Thus, palatal dipthongization is useful for philologists who wish to date a borrowed word in Old English.
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This list is meant to assist, not intimidate. Use it as a touchstone for important concepts and vocabulary that we will cover during the term. Vocabulary terms are listed alphabetically. [A] [B] [C] [D] [E] [F] [G] [H] [I] [J] [K] [L] [M]
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PALIMPSEST (Grk, rubbed away): A surface such as a piece of parchment or vellum in which one text had been written, but then later became partially or completely erased when a subsequent scribe or bookmarker recycled the page and used a knife or edged tool to scrape away the original surface.
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plot devices definition
A plot device which nobody actually uses, and whose nature and identity are basically irrelevant.