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| Rank |
Topic |
Wikipedia views |
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| 1 |
Metaphor |
10,803 |
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| 2 |
Allegory |
6,056 |
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| 3 |
Fairy tale |
5,666 |
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| 4 |
Simile |
5,181 |
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| 5 |
Deus ex machina |
5,157 |
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| 6 |
Fable |
3,227 |
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| 7 |
Metonymy |
3,165 |
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| 8 |
Allusion |
2,919 |
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| 9 |
Personification |
2,568 |
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| 10 |
Homophone |
2,481 |
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| 11 |
Literary technique |
2,258 |
|
| 12 |
MacGuffin |
2,208 |
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| 13 |
Parable |
2,102 |
|
| 14 |
Deal with the Devil |
1,970 |
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| 15 |
Chekhov's gun |
1,143 |
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| 16 |
Redshirt (character) |
1,021 |
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| 17 |
Frame story |
804 |
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| 18 |
Quest |
719 |
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| 19 |
Plot device |
603 |
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| 20 |
Principle of Evil Marksmanship |
470 |
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| 21 |
Alien space bats |
374 |
|
| 22 |
Illeism |
290 |
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| 23 |
Digression |
264 |
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| 24 |
Framing device |
242 |
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| 25 |
Shoulder angel |
242 |
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| 26 |
Government warehouse (fiction) |
200 |
|
| 27 |
Shakespearian fool |
179 |
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| 28 |
Quibble (plot device) |
165 |
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| 29 |
Homeric simile |
139 |
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| 30 |
Dream world (plot device) |
138 |
|
| 31 |
Deathtrap (plot device) |
94 |
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| 32 |
Point of divergence |
93 |
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| 33 |
Plot generator |
92 |
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| 34 |
Jonbar Hinge |
86 |
|
| 35 |
Metalepsis |
79 |
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| 36 |
Apologue |
75 |
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| 37 |
Opening sentence |
54 |
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| 38 |
Hermetics |
52 |
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| 39 |
Bed trick |
39 |
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| 40 |
Paradox of poetry |
30 |
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| 41 |
Psittacism |
8 |
|
| 42 |
Metonyms |
less than 5 views |
|
| 43 |
Polysemes |
less than 5 views |
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| 44 |
Cacosyntheton |
less than 5 views |
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