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foreshadowing

Literature; General

Foreshadowing is a literary technique used by many different authors to provide clues for the reader to be able to predict what might occur later on in the story.

Chekhov's gun is the literary technique whereby an element is introduced early in the story, but its significance does not become clear until later on. For example, a character may find a mysterious ...

cliffhanger

Literature; General

A cliffhanger or cliffhanger ending is a plot device in fiction which features a main character in a precarious or difficult dilemma, or confronted with a shocking revelation at the end of an episode ...

defamiliarization

Literature; General

Defamiliarization is the artistic technique of forcing the audience to see common things in an unfamiliar or strange way, in order to enhance perception of the familiar.

deus ex machina

Literature; General

Resolving the primary conflict by a means unrelated to the story (e.g., a god appears and solves everything).

in media res

Literature; General

Beginning the story in the middle of a sequence of events. The Iliad and the Odyssey of Homer, are prime examples. The latter work begins with the return of Odysseus to his home of Ithaka and then in ...

narrative hook

Literature; General

A narrative hook (or hook) is a literary technique in the opening of a story that "hooks" the reader's attention so that he or she will keep on reading.