Plot The unified structure of incidents in a literary work. See Conflict‚ Climax‚ Denouement‚ andFlashback. Dialogue The conversation of characters in a literary work. In fiction‚ dialogue is typically enclosed within quotation marks. In plays‚ characters’ speech is preceded by their names. act n. 5. One of the major divisions of a play or opera. scene a. The scenery and properties for a dramatic presentation mo·tif a. A recurrent thematic element in an artistic or literary work
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The Sandlot is a story about the kids in the sandlot play baseball and how the sport brings all of them together to use teamwork to solve the biggest pickle they have ever been in . The Sandlot is a bad movie because of the plot suffered and production of the movie was poor. The plot was a very apparent problem; with the bad pacing and easily avoidable plot it made for a less interesting movie. For the first thirty minutes of the movie the characters are introduced and the story of how Scotty Smalls
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Many stories‚ especially in the fantasy genre‚ feature an object or objects with some great power. Often what drives the plot is the hero’s need to find the object before the villain and use it for good rather than evil‚ or if the object has been broken by the villains‚ to retrieve each piece that must be gathered from each antagonist to restore it‚ or‚ if the object itself is evil‚ to destroy it. In some cases destroying the object will lead to the destruction of the villain.[according to whom?]
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Introduction The gunpowder plot happened in 1605 ‚ in London.The people involved were Guy Fawks ‚ Robert and Thomas Wintour‚ Thomas Percy‚ Christopher and John Wright‚ Francis Tresham‚ Everard Digby‚ Ambrose Rookwood‚ Thomas Bates‚ Robert Keyes‚ Hugh Owen‚ John Grant and the man who is said to have organised the whole plot Robert Catesby. The other people involved in the plot were Robert Cecil and mounteagle. Some Catholics decided to come up with the plot ‚ to blow up parliament. There aim
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The Babington Plot Anthony Babington was a young Catholic noble who joined a plot to depose the Protestant Queen Elizabeth I and put Mary Queen of Scots on the English throne. Sir Francis Walsingham‚ the head of Elizabeth’s secret service‚ captured a Catholic plotter named Gilbert Gifford and ‘convinced’ him to act as a double agent. Gifford would act as an intermediary - smuggling letters to Mary who was imprisoned in Chartley Hall. All the letters were given to Walsingham. The letters were written
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Plot Summary The plot of To Kill a Mockingbird revolves around main character Scout Finch. She lives with her father‚ Atticus‚ and brother‚ Jem. Atticus is a widow‚ and Scout has no mother. The family resides in a fictional Alabama town called Maycomb‚ which is in the grips of the great depression. Even though many in the town are struggling‚ Atticus is a lawyer with a strong work ethic and a good client base‚ so the Finch family is doing pretty well - at least when compared to many of the other
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Issues Affecting the Aged By late adulthood none of us can dispute the physical signs of aging. As Erikson and colleagues (1986) have noted‚ “As the overall tonus of the body begins to sag and innumerable inner parts call attention to themselves through malfunction‚ the aging body is forced into a new sense of invalidness…The elder is obligated to turn attention from more interesting aspects of life to the demanding requirements of the body” (p. 309). In the United States‚ a substantial
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(a) Who is ‘I’ ? (b) Who had written the slip of paper ? (c) What was written on it ? II. SHORT ANSWER TYPE QUESTIONS Answer the following questions in about 50-60 words : 1. Bring out the irony in the statement: ‘I did not specialize in ghost stories‚ but more or less‚ they seemed to specialize in me’. 2. Why does John want the ghost to disappear before his wife appears on the scene ? 3. What made Lavinia buy a Ouija board? How did the narrator react to her doing? 4. What is your impression
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the health system or going to residential aged care of elderly in Australia. Especially‚ it deals with the issue of increasing ageing population in Australia includes statistical information highlighting some causes and telltales. The context presented is economic and social. It also looks at the effects that increasing of the ageing population has on society‚ the individual and the Australian economy. Australia is one of the most advantaged aged care systems in the world. The increasing numbers
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Issues Affecting the Aged Donna Camacho BSHS/342 April 24‚ 2011 Barbara Kennedy Issues Affecting the Aged There are many issues that affect the aged. Not only do issues of the mind and body exist‚ but others as well. There are family issues‚ financial issues‚ housing issues and many more. In this paper‚ this writer will endeavor to highlight some of the issues facing and affected the aged and explain them. Medical and Mental Issues Many issues both genetic and environmental affect
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