Examples of 'plot device' in a sentence
Meaning of "plot device"
plot device - This phrase refers to a narrative tool or element used in literature, film, or other storytelling mediums to advance the storyline or create dramatic tension
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- An element introduced into a story, film, etc. to advance its plot.
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This is a classic plot device of this genre.
I never thought about clothes as a plot device.
A plot device is a means of advancing the plot in a story.
Alex introduces the second plot device.
And a major plot device is the love triangle.
We would think of a clever plot device.
Amnesia is a common plot device used to explore these questions.
Vodun magic is an important plot device.
The major plot device is a time loop or time bounce.
It reduces the woman to a plot device.
This meager plot device ties the musical revue together.
Their decisions never felt like a plot device.
Holodecks have also been used as a plot device to explore metaphysical questions.
The author merely used the murders as a plot device.
The waterfall is a lazy plot device and nothing more.
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The plot device to explain this is he is a disembodied spirit of some kind.
That treats death as a plot device.
As a plot device.
Usually such an element is related as a plot device in the game.
Displays the plot device specified in the currently selected page setup.
The perfect plot device.
I might have been able to accept one unreliable narrator as a plot device.
Red herring plot device.
This plot device has lost much of its punch in recent years.
A deus ex machina is a plot device.
Displays the type of plot device specified in the currently selected page setup.
It was kind of a playful plot device.
The hypothesis has been a central plot device of many science fiction stories and films.
The show made use of the fourth wall plot device.
This version has often provided the plot device for mysteries and detective stories.
It seems that the writers just forgot about this plot device.
Love triangles are commonly used as a plot device to cause conflict in the story.
I will not mention what is going on because it will destroy a very subtle plot device.
Some see it as a plot device to.
Roddenberry also insisted that technology failures should not be a routinely used plot device.
Time travel is a common theme and plot device in science fiction films.
Thor has never been able to beat his own enemies without plot device.
Psychogenic amnesia is a common fictional plot device in many films and books and other media.
Another common plot device in fiction involves the concept of altering history with malicious intent.
I really hope that rape is not used as a plot device in this movie.
As a plot device to get the character of Lucy to awaken.
Other books have used Go as a theme or minor plot device.
This plot device will be utilized yet again in Interstellar.
Harry Potter just ruined the whole plot device.
There is also a plot device that I despise.
I was happy with this result and used it as a key plot device in Contact.
The plot device in this VN is amnesia.
The Batcomputer often acts as a plot device or tool for exposition.
Precisely I think she just ended up as a plot device.
This usage is employed as a plot device in the Barber of Seville.
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Examples of using Device
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Place the device securely on an even surface
There are no external forces applied on the device
Do not carry the device in a breast pocket
Examples of using Plot
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A plot shall show us all a merry day
He would be able to plot our position immediately
Plot your revenge on your own time
