Sentence examples for device footnotes from inspiring English sources
For The Testament of Gideon Mack, he introduced a framing device, footnotes, and a direct address to the reader – warning against hurrying through long novels, for example – which seems quite natural to readers of Alasdair Gray.
The back story of the village and its characters is told through the device of footnotes and further reading, labelled, like the chapters, only in odd numbers as a nod to China's continuing literary and historical censorship.
Even his signature stylistic device — the extensive use of footnotes and endnotes — was a kind of scholarly homage.
An idea or frame of reference may be conveyed by texts through literary devices such as metaphor, imagery, symbols, graphs and through structuring devices such as tabulation, listing, footnotes and so on.
It's a heavy meta-textual weight to carry: Wallace, whose landmark novel "Infinite Jest" employed footnotes as a postmodern formal device, committed suicide in 2008 at age 46.
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("The footnotes! The footnotes!").
