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    Self-insertion is a literary device in which the author writes themselves into the story under the guise of, or from the perspective of, a fictional character...
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  • always the main character, a Mary Sue is often an author's idealized self-insertion, and may serve as a form of wish fulfillment. Mary Sue stories are often...
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  • A self-fulfilling prophecy is a prediction that comes true at least in part as a result of a person's belief or expectation that the prediction would come...
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    commonly codified as "man against man", "man against nature", and "man against self." Although frequently cited, these three types of conflict are not universally...
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  • Self-embedding is the insertion of foreign objects either into soft tissues under the skin or into muscle. Self-embedding is typically considered deliberate...
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  • genre and vary greatly, certain tropes that lend themselves to reader self-insertion are common. The protagonist, commonly an everyman-archetype, often has...
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    techniques Nomen à clef Non-fiction novel Semi-fiction Small penis rule Self-insertion Author surrogate Tuckerization "Definition of ROMAN À CLEF". www.merriam-webster...
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  • Holly, calling King a "boomer" and expressing irritation at King's self-insertion of his own political views into the Holly Gibney character. King responded...
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  • Thought insertion is defined by the ICD-10 as the delusion that one's thoughts are not one's own, but rather belong to someone else and have been inserted...
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    MacGuffin Pace Plot device Plot twist Poetic justice Red herring Reveal Self-insertion Shaggy dog story Stereotype Story arc Story within a story Subplot Suspense...
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    Snape enables both characters "to experience the essential adventures of self-determination" but they make different choices; Harry chooses to oppose Lord...
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    fist fucking (FF), handballing, and brachioproctic or brachiovaginal insertion—is a sexual activity that involves inserting one or more hands into the...
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  • veil in Mark 15:38.[original research?] Thematic patterning means the insertion of a recurring motif in a narrative. For example, various scenes in John...
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    root) small in the face of arbitrary item insertions and deletions. These operations when designed for a self-balancing binary search tree, contain precautionary...
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  • Narrative exposition, now often simply exposition, is the insertion of background information within a story or narrative. This information can be about...
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    with the latter being either an author-surrogate or an example of self-insertion. The use of a famous person easily identifiable with certain character...
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  • Boscolo-Berto, R.; Iafrate, M.; Viel, G. (2010). "Forensic implications in self-insertion of urethral foreign bodies". The Canadian Journal of Urology. 17 (1):...
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