the plot takes place only in a gigantic megastructure / arcology simply called the City, which is still being expanded by its automatic systems.

In fiction, continuity ( also called time-scheme ) is consistency of the characteristics of persons, plot, objects, and places seen by the reader or viewer over some period of time.

The family plot of Damon Runyon in Woodlawn Cemetery ( Bronx, New York ) | Woodlawn CemeteryRunyon's marriage to Ellen Egan produced two children ( Mary and Damon, Jr .), and broke up in 1928 over rumors that Runyon had become infatuated with a Mexican girl he had first met while covering the Pancho Villa raids in 1916 and discovered once again in New York, when she called the American seeking him out.

Roz Laws from the Sunday Mercury called the plot " shocking and ridiculous " and asked " are we really supposed to believe that Kat won't recognise that the baby looks different?

* Ronald Munson used an epistolary style in " Fan Mail " ( 1994 ), where the entire plot is told using e-mails, letters, transcripts of television shows and telephone conversations, faxes, and interactions with a computer program called ELIZA.

The plot features a transvestite called Glen whose alter-ego is called Glenda.

Another writer influenced by the plot was John Milton, who in 1626 wrote what one commentator has called a " critically vexing poem ", In Quintum Novembris.

For example, P. Schuyler Miller called Arthur C. Clarke's 1961 novel A Fall of Moondust hard SF, and the designation remains valid even though a crucial plot element, the existence of deep pockets of " moondust " in lunar craters, is now known to be incorrect.

The club was featured in a children's television show called Scully ; the plot revolved around a young boy, Francis Scully, who tried to gain a trial match with Liverpool.

This behavior is what produces the linear relationship when logarithms are taken of both and, and the straight-line on the log-log plot is often called the signature of a power law.

An anime series produced by Gonzo and SKY Perfect Well Think, called Romeo x Juliet, was made in 2007 ; its plot was an edited version of the original story's, and had many new supporting characters whose names were often derived from those of characters in other Shakespeare works.

This type of measurement is called scanning tunneling spectroscopy ( STS ) and typically results in a plot of the local density of states as a function of energy within the sample.

The secondary structure may be also defined based on the regular pattern of backbone dihedral angles in a particular region of the Ramachandran plot ; thus, a segment of residues with such dihedral angles may be called a helix, regardless of whether it has the correct hydrogen bonds.

Specific plot elements and features in The Hobbit that show similarities to Beowulf include the title thief as Bilbo is called by Gollum and later also by Smaug, the underground path into the mountain, and Smaug's personality which leads to the destruction of Lake-town.

The adaptation has been called " execrable " and confusing for those not already familiar with the plot.

Max Beerbohm called this play Wilde's " finest, most undeniably his own ", saying that in his other comedies — Lady Windermere's Fan, A Woman of No Importance and An Ideal Husband — the plot, following the manner of Victorien Sardou, is unrelated to the theme of the work, while in Earnest the story is " dissolved " into the form of the play.

Although usually called a novel, it has no unified plot.

Wagner referred to " Tristan und Isolde " not as an opera, but called it " Eine Handlung " ( literally drama or plot ), which was the equivalent of the term used by the Spanish playwright Calderón for his dramas.

While critics have frequently dismissed the opera as a facile melodrama with confusions of plot — musicologist Joseph Kerman famously called it a " shabby little shocker "— the power of its score and the inventiveness of its orchestration have been widely acknowledged.

In 1952, Time magazine called it a " mammoth merger of two masters of malarkey for the masses: P. T. Barnum and Cecil B. de Mille " as well as a film that " fills the screen with pageants and parades finds a spot for 60-odd circus acts " with a plot that " does not quite hold all this pageantry together.

Austen almost never refers to specific dates or historical events in her novels, but wartime England forms part of the general backdrop to several of them: in Pride and Prejudice ( 1813, but possibly written during the 1790s ), the local militia ( civilian volunteers ) has been called up for home defence and its officers play an important role in the plot ; in Mansfield Park ( 1814 ), Fanny Price's brother William is a midshipman ( officer in training ) in the Royal Navy ; and in Persuasion ( 1818 ), Frederic Wentworth and several other characters are naval officers recently returned from service.

A plot of the gain as a function of direction is called the radiation pattern.

On March 21, 1098, Robert's small group acquired a plot of marshland just south of Dijon called Cîteaux ( Latin: " Cistercium ".

The plot shifts, however, when the characters realize that Brahne is working with an even more threatening person called Kuja.

They might, for example, plot it exactly as is, or they might make ten day moving averages of it, or longer moving averages, or they might simply plot the ratio of odd-lot purchases to odd-lot sales.

Such mannerisms would be less worthy of remark, were it not that in Great Expectations, as in no other of Dickens' novels, hands serve as a leitmotif of plot and theme -- a kind of unifying symbol or natural metaphor for the book's complex of human interrelationships and the values and attitudes that motivate them.

Dickens not only reveals character through gesture, he makes hands a crucial element of the plot, a means of clarifying the structure of the novel by helping to define the hero's relations with all the major characters, and a device for ordering such diverse themes as guilt, pursuit, crime, greed, education, materialism, enslavement ( by both people and institutions ), friendship, romantic love, forgiveness, and redemption.

You could not, of course, raise feed for the livestock on a plot this small.

And though it was logical that a man who could plot mass murder would not hesitate to speak an untruth, still it was difficult to understand why Spencer spoke only for Cromwell.

When not ( e. g. Quest for the Future ) the disparate stories thrown together generally made for a less coherent plot.

The success of his children's books was to become a source of considerable annoyance to Milne, whose self-avowed aim was to write whatever he pleased and who had, until then, found a ready audience for each change of direction: he had freed pre-war Punch from its ponderous facetiousness ; he had made a considerable reputation as a playwright ( like his idol J. M. Barrie ) on both sides of the Atlantic ; he had produced a witty piece of detective writing in The Red House Mystery ( although this was severely criticised by Raymond Chandler for the implausibility of its plot ).

The last film is not based on any Christie work but displays a few plot elements from They Do It With Mirrors ( viz., the ship is used as a reform school for wayward boys and one of the teachers uses them as a crime force ), and there is a kind of salute to The Mousetrap.

The remainder of the book is a collection of essays on the game, statistics for the new characters and an update of the older ones in light of their appearance in the second series, and ( perhaps most usefully for GMs ) plot summaries of each of the ten books.

Anna then protested that the family was in fear for their lives, her sons were loyal subjects ( Alexios and Isaac were discovered absent without leave ), and had learned of a plot by enemies of the Komnenoi to have them both blinded and had, therefore, fled the capital so they may continue to be of loyal service to the emperor.

A search for the author of the publications uncovered the whole plot, yet Aron was only banished due to his connection of the royal line of Bulgaria, whose blood also flowed in the veins of the empress Irene.

The mixing and pushing against the boundaries of established operatic genres would be a continuing hallmark of Salieri's own personal style, and in his choice of material for the plot ( as in his first opera ), he manifested a lifelong interest in subjects drawn from classic drama and literature.

The opera Les Danaïdes ( The Danaids ) is a five-act tragédie lyrique ; the plot was based on an ancient Greek legend that had been the basis for the first play in a trilogy by Aeschylus, entitled The Suppliants.

Thereupon the Athenians concerted a plot with Nicodromus, the leader of the democratic party in the island, for the betrayal of Aegina.

The video for " Takes A Little Time " was a new direction for Grant ; with a blue light filter, acoustic guitar, the streets and characters of New York City, and a plot, Grant was re-cast as an adult light rocker.

The term shmoo has also entered the lexicon, defining highly technical concepts in no less than four separate fields of science, including the variations shmooing ( a microbiological term for the " budding " process in yeast reproduction ), and shmoo plot ( a technical term in the field of electrical engineering ).

Promotional drawings were created and published in Variety during the casting process before the budget was deemed too little for the plot.

The main plot from Rear Window was used for Body Double, while it also used elements of Vertigo.

The price paid was half the amount of the 6, 250 m² Admiralty II plot, for which the MTR Corporation paid HK $ 1. 82 billion in cash.

According to Berlet and Lyons, " Conspiracism is a particular narrative form of scapegoating that frames demonized enemies as part of a vast insidious plot against the common good, while it valorizes the scapegoater as a hero for sounding the alarm ".