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

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