title page
/tˈaɪɾəl pˈeɪdʒ/
nounthe page at the front of a book that the names of the book, its author, and publisher are printed on it
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1. Oh, this is my title page
2. The first page of this document is a title page or cover page.
3. But here's the title page of the first volume.
4. So here's the title page.
5. - Give my title page back, bro.
appendix
/əˈpɛndɪks/
nouna separate part at the end of a book that gives further information
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1. The appendix gets a bad rap.
2. - Are you my appendix?
3. Are you my appendix?
4. The appendix contains various hymns and poems in honor of Santiago, a basic reference for Western polyphonic music.
5. The appendix contains various hymns and poems in honor of Santiago, a basic reference for Western polyphonic music.
footnote
/ˈfʊtˌnoʊt/
nounan extra piece of information that is placed at the bottom of a printed page
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1. - Click the footnote.
2. They have footnotes.
3. Please use footnotes for your in-text citations.
4. Please use footnotes for your in-text citations.
5. You can have footnotes.
backstory
/bˈækstoːɹi/
nounthe events that have happened to a character before their story in a book, movie, etc. begins
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1. So, the name came before the backstory.
2. They have more backstory.
3. Acts, chapter 1, gives the backstory.
4. I love a backstory, though.
5. We know the backstory now.
characterization
/ˌkɛɹəktɝɪˈzeɪʃən/
nounthe way in which characters in a movie, book, etc. are created and represented by a writer
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1. The issue of characterization is hugely, hugely, hugely significant.
2. I agree with Martha's characterization.
3. We never had a characterization of this river.
4. That characterization, in my view, is even more charitable.
5. I have a characterization.
narration
/nɛˈɹeɪʃən/
nounthe act of telling or explaining a story, particularly in a movie, novel, etc.
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1. The narration is by the author.
2. For the majority of the Mortal Kombat trailer, franchise favorite Sonya Blade provides narration over various clips.
3. His narration is just amazing.
4. This script includes narration if you want it.
5. Omniscient narration is completely neutral.
the first person
/fˈɜːst pˈɜːsən/
nouna way of telling or writing a story in which things happen to the narrator and the story revolves around them
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1. First person to step into the Nether.
2. First person is out.
3. First person to blink loses.
4. First person who believed in you.
5. First person who believed in me.
third person
/θˈɜːd pˈɜːsən/
nouna way of telling or writing a story which uses third-person pronouns and verbs and has a narrator that is not part of the story
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1. This point of view is called third person.
2. Your other novel is also in the third person.
3. I built a PC in third person!
4. Third person direct object pronouns more closely.
5. Only speak in third person.
twist
/ˈtwɪst/
nounan unexpected turn in the course of events
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1. Twist the paper?
2. Twist your arm.
3. Torque is just twisting force.
4. Twist my arm.
5. - Twist my arm.
inspiration
/ˌɪnspɝˈeɪʃən/
nounthe process of mental stimulation that causes someone to have a new idea or emotion, or to do or create something artistic
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1. According to them, inspiration has three main qualities.
2. Provide inspiration!
3. Other countries take inspiration from their neighbors.
4. Others find inspiration.
5. Inspiration is contagious.
to co-author
/kˈoʊˈɔːθɚ/
verbto write a book, article, bill, etc. with another author
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1. Well, here comes the co-author now.
2. Well, here comes the co-author now.
3. So I've had co-authors in the Kennedy School of the economics department, the psychology department.
4. And the person becomes co-author of the cake.
5. Co-authoring the things you believe about yourself.
to compose
/kəmˈpoʊz/
verbto write a literary piece with a lot of consideration
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1. He began to compose music at age three.
2. Between the forests and deserts a number of ecoclines or transitional environments composed a buffer between the two extremes.
3. - All right, so compose your bite.
4. Compose your shot.
5. Compose your shot.
to jot down
/dʒˈɑːt dˈaʊn/
verbto make a quick note of something in a hurried and informal style
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1. And the reporter busily jots down notes of what he or she can hear in the background.
2. Immediately, officers jotted down Jesus as their number one person of interest in Carlos' disappearance and subsequent murder.
3. Jot down some of your most important career accomplishments.
4. Jot down what impresses you most about the company.
5. Jot down a few notes on the job description next to the items that you have had experience with.
to proofread
/ˈpɹuˌfɹid/
verbto read and correct the mistakes of a written or printed text
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1. And you'll proofread the typesetting.
2. I would just proofread documents.
3. I do need to proofread.
4. Publication assistants at book-publishing houses evaluate manuscripts and proofread drafts.
5. Can you proofread this text to Kevin for me?
to script
/ˈskɹɪpt/
verbto write the words used in a movie, play, etc.
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1. We finna write scripts.
2. [ Laughter ] -Script is script.
3. Script stays same.
4. None of my videos are scripted.
5. Third, script your videos.
autobiography
/ˌɔtəbaɪˈɑɡɹəfi/
nounthe story of the life of a person, written by the same person
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1. I read her autobiography.
2. You have to earn your autobiography.
3. So what is autobiography?
4. So, I actually read Mariah Carey's autobiography.
5. Many autobiographies have one.
comic strip
/kˈɑːmɪk stɹˈɪp/
nouna series of cartoons in boxes that narrate a story
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1. It even has its own comic strip on the team’s website.
2. Also classic comic strip that's great.
3. - Are we talking comic strips?
4. Black comic strips were always separate from white comic strips.
5. This is a recent comic strip from the Los Angeles Times.
fable
/ˈfeɪbəɫ/
nouna short story on morality with animal characters
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1. Local fables tell about ships sucked down to Davy Jones' Locker by Old Sow.
2. It's like the frog and the scorpion fable.
3. Usually these stories are called fables.
4. Usually these stories are called fables.
5. So, the fable, here, is the 1919 eclipse expedition.
pamphlet
/ˈpæmfɫət/
nouna small book with a paper cover giving information about a particular subject
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1. Ben Franklin, he passed out pamphlets.
2. Here, have a pamphlet.
3. And these associations produced pamphlets.
4. This tract, this pamphlet, was mainly a raw howl of protest.
5. The pamphlet speaks for itself.
hardcover
/ˈhɑɹdˌkəvɝ/
nouna book with a cover made from stiff material such as cardboard, leather, etc.
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1. The hardcover of the first book is coming out in the UK in July.
2. Number six is hardcover books.
3. Buy the hardcover version.
4. This is a 700 page book, it's hardcover on top of that.
5. You will need A large hardcover book A tape measure A pencil A utility knife An L-bracket A screwdriver 4 short flathead wood screws 6 long flathead wood screws All-purpose glue
paperback
/ˈpeɪpɝˌbæk/
nouna book with a cover that is made of thick paper
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1. And I wrote paperbacks, a lot of things over the years.
2. The paperback rights were sold for 400,000 dollars.
3. And his novel An Absolutely Remarkable Thing is now out in paperback.
4. Mine is a paperback.
5. The paperback of that comes out in July.
prose
/ˈpɹoʊz/
nounspoken or written language in its usual form, in contrast to poetry
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1. Good people can write bad prose.
2. So classic prose is literally a matter of life and death.
3. Prose uses normal sentences and paragraphs.
4. His background kind of shines through his prose.
5. So if prose scares, poetry must haunt.
dramatist
/ˈdɹɑmətɪst/
nounsomeone who writes plays for the TV, radio, or theater
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1. Her story has inspired poets, dramatists, and artists for more than 2,000 years.
2. I’ll be a poet, a writer, a dramatist.
3. I don't want to teach drama, I want to become a dramatist.
4. It's important for Salinger that Shakespeare was a dramatist.
5. Philosophers, dramatists, theologians have grappled with this question for centuries: what makes people go wrong?
playwright
/ˈpɫeɪˌɹaɪt/
nounsomeone who writes plays for the TV, radio, or theater
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1. She's a playwright.
2. AUGUST WILSON, Playwright: I am.
3. I'm a Black American playwright.
4. Be the playwright and the director of your life.
5. She was a playwright.
engaging
/ɛnˈɡeɪdʒɪŋ/
adjectivebeing attractive and interesting so much that draws one's attention
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1. Like, the art in there becomes so engaging.
2. The first one is not very engaging at all.
3. Tell an engaging story.
4. It was engaging.
5. Books from my dad’s library looked much more engaging.
gripping
/ˈɡɹɪpɪŋ/
adjectiveexciting and intriguing in a way that attracts someone's attention
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1. Okay, I get it, the movie is absolutely gripping.
2. It was so gripping because it was unmediated.
3. And it's just so gripping because of that.
4. Their contoured shape is designed for easy gripping.
5. - Sorkin writes overwhelmingly human intelligent gripping dialogue.
heavy
/ˈhɛvi/
adjective(of a literary work) very serious or hard to understand
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1. His sword was heavy.
2. His sword is much heavier than the monk's.
3. Books are heavy!
4. Air is heavy.
5. The bass is heavy.
intriguing
/ˌɪnˈtɹiɡɪŋ/
adjectiveinteresting due to being strange or mysterious
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1. The documentary about outer space was intriguing.
2. And the intimate glimpse into his mind is intriguing.
3. - Sounds intriguing.
4. One of the two aspects of this problem are very intriguing.
5. Sound intriguing?
ironic
/aɪˈɹɑnɪk/
adjectivecontaining or expressing irony, meaning the opposite of what is said
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1. That was ironic.
2. That's ironic.
3. - It is ironic.
4. It’s ironic.
5. An ironic mustache just perked up somewhere.
tragic
/ˈtɹædʒɪk/
adjective(of a literary piece) related to tragedy
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1. The ones on men are tragic.
2. Now often, a result of Capgras syndrome is tragic.
3. Their situation is tragic.
4. Its story in Zambia, from the 1970s to today, is tragic.
5. John’s relationships with his parents after that were tragic.
symbolism
/ˈsɪmbəˌɫɪzəm/
nounthe practice of using symbols to signify an idea, object, etc.
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1. These people were into symbolism.
2. Dreams had symbolism.
3. Each Easter food has symbolism.
4. Soviet symbolism has always kind of pushed the limits of detail quantity and quality
5. Animals held deep symbolism for us and deep meaning.
trilogy
/ˈtɹɪɫədʒi/
nouna set of three movies, books, etc. that are related or have the same characters
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1. This trilogy is like, Dune-level science fiction.
2. The trilogy ends with an uneasy peace after centuries of war between man and machine.
3. A trilogy, as one reviewer referred to it.
4. Batman trilogy, Batman Begins, Dark Knight, Dark Knight Rises.
5. She wrote a trilogy of Civil War books.
sequel
/ˈsikwəɫ/
nouna book, movie, play, etc. that continues and extends the story of an earlier one
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1. And just as with the Final Destination movies, the sequels have pretty much the same plot, just some new actors.
2. Sequel's not out yet.
3. Sequels work now.
4. And Sequel truly is a real car.
5. Free Radical Design, creator of TimeSplitters, made two sequels.
quote
/ˈkwoʊt/
nouna sentence from a speech, book, etc. that is repeated somewhere else because it is wise or interesting
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1. Mean Girls quote!
2. But of course people only quote the sound bite.
3. One said, quote, "the thrilling story of the Revolutionary War finale."
4. The citation is quoting your source.
5. quoting our textbook.
romance
/ˈɹoʊmæns/, /ɹoʊˈmæns/
nouna novel or movie about love
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1. - Yes. - Sibling romance.
2. When he speaks about matters of chivalry he uses archaic words drawn from the romances of chivalry.
3. So in English, 'romance' means a story with a linear plot and unchanging characters.
4. Romance, write a romance novel, Chelsea.
5. Romance the flowers.
true crime
/tɹˈuː kɹˈaɪm/
nouna movie or book genre involving real crimes and real people
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1. My mom watches true crime.
2. And news is true crime.
3. True Crime is your new True Crime Podcast Fix.
4. - True crime is one of the most enduring trends.
5. Because true crime makes so much money.
