Sentence examples for story device from inspiring English sources

The viewer both exists in the world as a character or story device, and has influence over the experienced story.

When Frank Underwood turns to the camera, he addresses the indistinct audience, not the viewer as a character or a story device within his world.

Participant Passive is a relatively new form of story in which the viewer exists in the world as a character, or a story device, but the story does not ask anything of the viewer, or permit them to inform the course of events.

He feels no pain and nothing can kill him, so therefore he's essentially a story device for action sequences".

Steven Spielberg's upcoming NBC TV venture, Smash, suggests a whole new future for the story-within-a-story device.

"Journalists are looking for a story line, a narrative device, that plays out over weeks and months, and there's nothing wrong with that.

Facebook updates and strings of text messages also help tell the story, a device that, along with the bullying theme, reinforces the young adult tone.

A one-way trip into the future is the staple of the suspended-animation story, the device behind the Buck Rogers stories and a host of consequent tales in which a hero of the present-day escapes the customary time-bound limits of human mortality.

She wrote the narrative in the voice of Tenguya Hisakichi, a carver of Bunraku puppets, as though she were telling his own story, a device she would later use in perhaps her finest work, the novella Ohan (1957; Eng. trans. as Ohan in The Old Woman, the Wife, and the Archer).

In some photos it almost looks like the Duo is lying flush on that table, but the side view (above) reveals a much different story — the device's bottom actually curves up to meet the keyboard.

Cut scenes are added in before and after matches as the main story telling device, and utilize the same character models as the fights.