what does elliptic narrative mean in a writting?
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el·lip·tic   adj.  3. a. Of or relating to extreme economy of oral or written expression. b. Marked by deliberate obscurity of style or expression.\n\nelliptical  adj 1: containing or characterized by ellipsis; "the clause of comparison is often elliptical"- G.O.Curme [syn: elliptic] 2: rounded like an egg [syn: egg-shaped, elliptic, oval, ovate, oviform, ovoid, prolate] 3: characterized by extreme economy of expression or omission of superfluous elements; "the dialogue is elliptic and full of dark hints"; "the explanation was concise, even elliptical to the verge of obscurity"- H.O.Taylor [syn: elliptic]\n\nhttp://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=elliptical&db=*
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it's a transition period between romanticism and modernism.\n\nfor more details see:\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victorian_literature
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Well, I believe that play features a character simply called the "Narrator."  He is a third-person perspective on all events in the 'town.'  I would say that third-person perspective might be considered a literary element.
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The writing in the bible is one-dimensional and often immorality is portrayed as moral.\n\nMost importantly, Mr. Brown lists his book as fiction.  The Bible claims it's ludicrous stories are absolutely true.
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Fantasy writer. \n\nEvolution is a theory made up by someone.
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1. The story is true.\n2. It describes not entertains.\n3. If it is a library book, it has a number rather than all  letters.
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Linear text would go from point a to point z in a line, with each item discussed directly relating to the item previously discussed.  It would flow in a coherant manner. A narrative story would be an example of this where you tell a tale in chronological order.\n\nNon-linear text would jump all over the place. It might draw information from modern times, then jump to ancient days, then back to modern. \n\nNon-linear text is often used when writing essays, and one must tie all the jumping around together in a way that makes things make sense.
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A century ago etymologists speculated that "story" came from some lost word "stairy," perhaps related to Gaelic staidhir, flight of stairs; or possibly from something along the lines of "stagery," derived from "stage." Others dismissed these as being obviously born of desperation, and for a time the experts settled on Old French estoree, a thing built. But doubts arose when researchers dug up such phrases as una historia octo fenestrarum, "a story of eight windows," from medieval Latin history books. Historia in Roman times meant history or story, and by the Middle Ages had acquired the meaning of "picture." So the charming notion arose that medieval folk were in the habit of installing rows of windows in their buildings called "stories" that were decorated with paintings or sculpture. The theory is that these stories, which for all anybody knows may actually have told a story, eventually came to signify a level of a building. Apparently as evidence of this practice, the authors of the Morris Dictionary of Word and Phrase Origins cite the fact that they once visited a Swiss-style hotel decorated along these lines in Lake Placid, New York. (Each floor was tricked out with a large hand-lettered slogan, such as "The only way to multiply happiness is to divide it.") At any rate, conjecture has now hardened into conviction. Believe at your own risk.\n\nhttp://www.straightdope.com/classics/a2_249a.html
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Writing in 1's and 0's??\n\nBut really, it's a category of writing, other than fiction, documentaries, etc., -but the kind of writing for owner's manuals, and instructions, etc.
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poor fella! nobody's answered. there is a story, a complicated one for that matter. it ties into the bag-on-line adventures, a couple comic books written by singer claudio sanchez that are quite sci-fi in nature. umm... hit up the coheedandcambria.com links and see if you get some more in depth info. hope that helps and be prepared to be mindboggled :P
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If I had to guess, I'd say that a "place tracer" is someone who describes the setting and why it is important to the story. \nThat';s what makes sense to me. Your teacher probably made it up because it sounds better than "setting describer"\n\nIf you can, double check your directions or call someone from class and ask.
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Pretty much like a series of wiggly lines across the page.  Often described as the trails of a herd (or whatever the collective pronoun is) of drunken snails.\n\nTo the inexperienced eye it looks like nothing but to someone who knows how to look at the traces it can show a great deal of information about the subsurface.  The trick is to lie the trace on a table and look along it rather than at it.  All of a sudden the picture is resolved.
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I shouldn't even be answering this, because technically it is in violation of the Community Guidelines.  But I must admit it is an intriguing concept.  I don't like horror stories, but the other categories you mentioned appeal to me.  \n\nI should tell you I am not much of a fiction writer.  Non-fiction is my forte.  But perhaps with your detailed outlines of the story, or even paragraphs and so on, my editing skills might be of use.  It's something we can discuss.  I will send you an email when I get a chance if you select my answer as best.  (Is that another violation of the Community Guidelines?)
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First person:  The author uses "I" throughout the text and clearly intends to tell the story through the perspective of one character.\n\nThird omniscient:  The narrator is removed from the action, the narrator uses third-person pronouns (he, she, it) throughout and has knowledge of what is going on in everyone's mind.\n\nThird limited:  The narrator is not quite as far removed from the action, uses third-person pronouns, and does not have knowledge of what is going on in everyone's mind.\n\nFirst observer:  I'm not sure about this one--perhaps the narrator tells the story from a certain perspective but was not a direct party to the events he is retelling?
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I need know a little more about the story to answer this question.
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Dictionary.com defines fiction as "the branch of literature comprising works of narrative prose dealing with or offering opinions or conjectures upon facts and reality, including biography, history, and the essay (opposed to fiction and distinguished from poetry and drama)."  \n\nIt also defines fiction as "the class of literature comprising works of imaginative narration, esp. in prose form."\n\nWikipedia also states, "Essays, journals, documentaries, scientific papers, photographs, biographies, textbooks, blueprints, technical documentation, user manuals, diagrams and journalism are all common examples of non-fiction works, and fiction within any of these works is usually regarded as dishonest. \n\nThe sole difference seems to be that lyrical poetry is accompanied by music.  This originates from Ancient Greece, where lyrical poetry was accompanied by a lyre.  Both tell stories (as that is what a narrative is); however, lyrical poetry will have music accompanying it.
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Whee, uh, I doubt if this is something you heard about in high school, but here it goes:  A modular form is a complex analytic function on the upper half-plane satisfying a number of conditions, and defined by two complex axes, so that they exist in hyperbolic space. They exhibit infinite symmetry under transformations of the type f(z) -> f[(az+b)/(cz+d)].  Related to elliptic functions, they appear in algebraic topology, string theory, and even in Mandelbrot sets. Here's the website about this last aspect, check out the color pictures: