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.

Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game series uses the ansible as a plot device.

" Derleth himself believed that Lovecraft wished for other authors to actively write about the myth-cycle as opposed to it being a discrete plot device.

A. E. van Vogt used the idea as a plot device in his story " M33 in Andromeda " ( 1943 ), which was later combined with the three other Space Beagle stories to became the novel, The Voyage of the Space Beagle.

As a dramatic plot device, Clark often has to quickly improvise in order to find a way to change unnoticed.

A similar device is used in the plot of Gilbert and Sullivan's 1879 comic opera The Pirates of Penzance: As a child, Frederic was apprenticed to a band of pirates until his 21st birthday.

* Miguel de Cervantes claims that all chapters but the first in Don Quixote are translated from an Arabic manuscript by Cide Hamete Benengeli, parodying a plot device of chivalry books.

In the frame of the book's plot, Wimsey's diplomatic obligations serve as a plot device to keep him away from Britain, and leave Harriet on her own for most of the book, to try to resolve the mystery at Oxford without his help.

The Supernatural Explained-as this technique was aptly named-is a recurring plot device in Radcliffe ’ s The Romance of the Forest.

While Lovecraft never considered his pantheon of alien gods more than a mere plot device, Derleth created an entire cosmology, complete with a war between the good Elder Gods and the evil Outer Gods, such as Cthulhu and his ilk ).

One such example is the centuries-old debate about Hamlet's hesitation to kill his uncle, which some see as a mere plot device to prolong the action, but which others argue is a dramatization of the complex philosophical and ethical issues that surround cold-blooded murder, calculated revenge, and thwarted desire.

Then too, critics started to focus on Hamlet's delay as a character trait, rather than a plot device.

The language appeared intermittently in later films featuring the original cast-for example, in Star Trek V: The Final Frontier and in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country ( 1991 ), where translation difficulties served as a plot device.

It was used as both a plot device and as a means to allow Superman's actor, Bud Collyer, to take occasional time off.

Personal Best was criticized for engaging in the cliched plot device of one woman returning to a relationship with a man, implying that lesbianism is a phase, as well as treating the lesbian relationship with " undisguised voyeurism ".

The story of Matilda and Henry IV is the main plot device in Luigi Pirandello's play Enrico IV.

Over time, a few Marvel Comics writers lobbied Marvel editors to incorporate the idea of a Multiverse resembling DC's parallel worlds ; this plot device allows one to create several fictional universes which normally do not overlap ( see below or Multiverse for more information ).

Numerology is a popular plot device in fiction.

In terms of plot, or perhaps more accurately plot device, Plautus served as a source of inspiration and also provided the possibility of adaptation for later playwrights.

By 1969 the popular press had taken notice, to the point that it was used as a plot device in Star Trek, and sparked fears of a " polywater gap " in the USA.

* The old time radio show Duffy's Tavern had an episode which used a newly discovered diary of Stuyvesant as a plot device.

Significantly, in the theatre of the ancient Latin-speaking world, the mask was not used as a plot device to disguise the identity of a character, but rather was a convention employed to represent or typify that character.

A sequence of target returns can be monitored through a device known as a plot extractor.

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.

In addition to more unusual words, Beyond Balderdash offers obscure acronyms, dates, names, and movie titles, for which the players have to provide full names, major events, major accomplishments, and plot summaries, respectively.

The movie pre dates ' The Bourne Identity ' movies by almost 45 years and the Bourne movies use a similar plot line ..

The idea of reviving the old library dates back to 1974, when a committee set up by Alexandria University selected a plot of land for its new library, between the campus and the seafront, close to where the ancient library once stood.

* Many of the family names and dates ( and the attributed last words ) were found at the Peckham family plot at Albany Rural Cemetery, Section 11, Lot 19.

* Many of the family names and dates were found at the Peckham family plot at Albany Rural Cemetery, Section 11, Lot 19.

There are plans to air them at some point in the future because of their importance in the anime's plot, but no specific 2012 dates have been cited.

You get back to the captain and tell him this: Somebody's going to take a shot at the prime minister, and Mahzeer is in on the plot.

The stereotyped plot line follows the " boy-gets-girl ", " boy-loses-girl ", " boy gets girl back again " sequence.

Dating back to 1875, the original plot was full by 1896 but subsequently expanded multiple times.

Although a typical plot might easily require a few thousand paper motions, back and forth, the paper doesn't slip.

* Throughout the plot of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, two unexplained events that greatly affect the plot are later seen to be caused by the protagonists using a time-turner, a small hourglass allowing its user to travel back in time.

In the Commedia dell ' arte it was an outline of entrances, exits, and action describing the plot of a play that was literally pinned to the back of the scenery.

Some of his best and least-known work is contained in Cabbages and Kings, a series of stories each of which explores some individual aspect of life in a paralytically sleepy Central American town, while advancing some aspect of the larger plot and relating back one to another.

" However, by 8 May 1884, Gilbert was ready to back down, writing, "... am I to understand that if I construct another plot in which no supernatural element occurs, you will undertake to set it?

In 1885 a governor, H E Chetwynd Stapleton, bought a plot of land behind the Jesus Hospital, a building in Wood Street dating back to 1679 ; today the Stapylton field stands in front of the main School building and is used for rugby and cricket.

Many sub-plots run the course of several books and tie back to the main plot in later books.

However, Antigone went back after his body was uncovered and performed the ritual again, an act that seems to be completely unmotivated by anything other than a plot necessity so that she could be caught in the act of disobedience, leaving no doubt of her guilt.

Offered the chance to avenge the Chel, Quilan is inducted into a plot to strike back at the Culture ( which secretly engineered the social changes that led to the civil war ).

After filming the film's opening sequences of the arrival in America, he reshot parts of the restaurant scene to be consistent with the new plot ( bringing Bergman back in a new role as an artist who resolves the subplot of Charlie being unable to pay for dinner ), and added the epilogue in which the Tramp and Purviance are married.

Expected to come to air in 2013, the characters of Phineas & Ferb and Marvel Universe characters, including Spider-Man and The Avengers, would be paired in a crossover special called Phineas & Ferb: Mission Marvel, which would use the plot device of a " inator " device of Dr. Doofenshmitz removing the powers of the superheroes, and the characters of Phineas & Ferb helping them get their powers back while fighting against Marvel villains.

In an attempt to pre-empt his deposal, Hương had backed a plot led by some Đại Việt-oriented Catholic officers, including Thiệu and Có, who planned to remove Khánh and bring Khiêm back from Washington.

The plot thus skips over the topics of the pilot ; the bulk of the episode tells of Gilligan and the Skipper setting off on a raft to try to bring help but unknowingly landing back on the other side of the same island.

The film's plot can claim a tradition in fiction reaching back to Alexandre Duval's " Shakespeare amoureux ou la Piece a l ' Etude " ( 1804 ), in which Shakespeare falls in love with an actress who is playing Richard III.

Her story is called " Ice ," and while she retains some of the main elements of the original fairy tale, such as the basic plot and the proximity of their houses and the window-box gardens, she does not mention the grandmother or much of the back story.

* A key plot element of the 1994 science fiction film Without Warning involves an alien race having intercepted Voyager and relaying part of the UN Secretary-General's message back to Earth.

The stories are mostly unconnected and very few of them actually told events with later effects in the plot, the majority of the stories concluding without explaing how the things settled, as in the next story all is back to normal.

After the stimulus is applied, the membrane potential rapidly rises to a peak potential of + 40 mV at time = 2 ms. Just as quickly, the potential then drops and overshoots to-90 mV at time = 3 ms, and finally the resting potential of-70 mV is reestablished at time = 5 ms. Bottom: a plot of an experimentally determined action potential that is very similar in appearance to the idealized plot, except that the peak is much sharper and the initial drop is to-50 mV increasing to-30 mV before dropping back to the resting potential of-70 mV.

On the other side, Johnny Abbes, Roberto Figueroa Carrión, and the Trujillo family put the SIM to work to hunt down the members of the plot and brought back Ramfis Trujillo from Paris to step into his father's shoes.

" He tells her Mussburger's plot and she takes the story back to her Chief, but he does not believe a word of it.