"Crochet thread Crochet thread is specially formulated thread usually made from mercerized cotton for crafting decorative crochet items such as doilies or filet crochet. Crochet thread produces fabric of fine gauge that may be stiffened with starch. Crochet thread is almost always produced from cotton and has a denser pile and smaller diameter than ordinary yarn. Most crochet threads are thicker in diameter than sewing thread. Crochet thread can withstand considerable stresses from pulls with sharp hooks. Crochet manufacturing conventions treat thread and yarn quite differently: manufacturers designate different sizing scales for thread and yarn. Thread is generally packaged on"
"Narrative thread A narrative thread, or plot thread (or, more ambiguously, a storyline), refers to particular elements and techniques of writing to center the story in the action or experience of characters rather than to relate a matter in a dry ""all-knowing"" sort of narration. Thus the narrative threads experienced by different but specific characters or sets of characters are those seen in the eyes of those characters that together form a plot element or subplot in the work of fiction. In this sense, each narrative thread is the narrative portion of a work that pertains to the world view"
"characteristically, there is conflict and the conflict intensifies. Third, and finally, harmony is reestablished by the conflict being solved, or at least explained in the case of non-fiction. Narrative thread A narrative thread, or plot thread (or, more ambiguously, a storyline), refers to particular elements and techniques of writing to center the story in the action or experience of characters rather than to relate a matter in a dry ""all-knowing"" sort of narration. Thus the narrative threads experienced by different but specific characters or sets of characters are those seen in the eyes of those characters that together form a"
"Narrative A narrative or story is a report of connected events, real or imaginary, presented in a sequence of written or spoken words, or still or moving images, or both. The word derives from the Latin verb ""narrare"", ""to tell"", which is derived from the adjective ""gnarus"", ""knowing"" or ""skilled"". Narrative can be organized in a number of thematic or formal categories: non-fiction (such as definitively including creative non-fiction, biography, journalism, transcript poetry, and historiography); fictionalization of historical events (such as anecdote, myth, legend, and historical fiction); and fiction proper (such as literature in prose and sometimes poetry, such as"
"of story vocabulary is theme, a set sequence of story actions that structure a tale. Just as the teller of tales proceeds line-by-line using formulas, so he proceeds from event-to-event using themes. One near-universal theme is repetition, as evidenced in Western folklore with the ""rule of three"": Three brothers set out, three attempts are made, three riddles are asked. A theme can be as simple as a specific set sequence describing the arming of a hero, starting with shirt and trousers and ending with headdress and weapons. A theme can be large enough to be a plot component. For example:"
"philosophy, grammar, or any field of knowledge can be woven. A ""sūtra"" is any short rule, states Moriz Winternitz, in Indian literature; it is ""a theorem condensed in few words"". A collection of ""sūtras"" becomes a text, and this is also called ""sūtra"" (often capitalized in Western literature). A ""sūtra"" is different from other components such as ""Shlokas"", ""Anuvyakhayas"" and ""Vyakhyas"" found in ancient Indian literature. A ""sūtra"" is a condensed rule which succinctly states the message, while a ""Shloka"" is a verse that conveys the complete message and is structured to certain rules of musical meter, a ""Anuvyakhaya"" is"
"Short story A short story is a piece of prose fiction that typically can be read in one sitting and focuses on a self-contained incident or series of linked incidents, with the intent of evoking a ""single effect"" or mood, however there are many exceptions to this. A dictionary definition is ""an invented prose narrative shorter than a novel usually dealing with a few characters and aiming at unity of effect and often concentrating on the creation of mood rather than plot."" The short story is a crafted form in its own right. Short stories make use of plot, resonance,"
"Thread (yarn) Thread is a type of yarn but similarly used for sewing. It can be made out of many different materials including cotton, linen, nylon, and silk . The thread is made from a wide h than the fabric so that if stressed the seam will break before the garment. Heavy goods that must withstand considerable stresses such as upholstery, car seating, tarpaulins, tents, and saddlery require very strong threads. Attempting repairs with light weight thread will usually result in rapid failure, though again, using a thread that is stronger than the material being sewn can end up causing"
"a moral or practical lesson. As with any art form, the exact characteristics of a short story will vary by creator. Short story A short story is a piece of prose fiction that typically can be read in one sitting and focuses on a self-contained incident or series of linked incidents, with the intent of evoking a ""single effect"" or mood, however there are many exceptions to this. A dictionary definition is ""an invented prose narrative shorter than a novel usually dealing with a few characters and aiming at unity of effect and often concentrating on the creation of mood"
"Short story cycle A short story cycle (sometimes referred to as a story sequence or composite novel) is a collection of short stories in which the narratives are specifically composed and arranged with the goal of creating an enhanced or different experience when reading the group as a whole as opposed to its individual parts. Short story cycles are different from novels because the parts that would make up the chapters can all stand alone as a short story, each individually containing a beginning, middle and conclusion. When read as a group there is a tension created between the ideas"
"although this is typically configurable: Options for newest to oldest and for a threaded view (a tree-like view applying logical reply structure before chronological order) can be available. A thread is defined by a title, an additional description that may summarize the intended discussion, and an opening or original post (common abbreviation OP, which can also mean original poster), which opens whatever dialogue or makes whatever announcement the poster wished. A thread can contain any number of posts, including multiple posts from the same members, even if they are one after the other. A thread is contained in a forum,"
"by sampling five texts showed that two adjacent sentences are more likely to have similar lengths than two non-adjacent sentences, and almost certainly have a similar length when in a work of fiction. This countered the theory that ""authors may aim at an alternation of long and short sentences."" Sentence length, as well as word difficulty, are both factors in the readability of a sentence; however, other factors, such as the presence of conjunctions, have been said to ""facilitate comprehension considerably"". Sentence (linguistics) In non-functional linguistics, a sentence is a textual unit consisting of one or more words that are"
"of the participating characters cognizant of their piece of the whole, and they may be the villains, the protagonists, a supporting character, or a relatively disinterested official utilized by the author, each thread of which is woven together by the writer to create a work. By utilizing different threads, the writer enables the reader to get pieces of the overall plot while positioning them to identify with the characters or experience the situation as if the reader were part of or eavesdropping upon the action the writer is divulging. This aids in the suspension of disbelief and engages the reader"
"Paragraph A paragraph (from the Ancient Greek παράγραφος ""paragraphos"", """"to write beside"""" or """"written beside"""") is a self-contained unit of a discourse in writing dealing with a particular point or idea. A paragraph consists of one or more sentences. Though not required by the syntax of any language, paragraphs are usually an expected part of formal writing, used to organize longer prose. The oldest classical Greek and Latin writing had little or no space between words and could be written in boustrophedon (alternating directions). Over time, text direction (left to right) became standardized, and word dividers and terminal punctuation became"
"secret of the whole. And more succinctly, in a footnote, about the ""part of producing the web of an intricate story"", he wrote: It is indeed easier to unravel a single ""thread"" — an incident, a name, a motive — than to trace the history of any ""picture"" defined by many threads. For with the picture in the tapestry a new element has come in: the picture is greater than, and not explained by, the sum of the component threads. The informational synergies which can be applied also in media involve a compression of transmission, access and use of information’s"
"that make up a paragraph,"" noting that professional writers use ""paragraphs as short as a single word"". According to the ""Oxford Guide to Plain English"": If you can say what you want to say in a single sentence that lacks a direct connection with any other sentence, just stop there and go on to a new paragraph. There's no rule against it. A paragraph can be a single sentence, whether long, short, or middling. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Writing Center states on its website, ""Many students define paragraphs in terms of length: a paragraph is a"
"Short prose Short prose is a generic term for various kinds of very short fictional prose; short prose may or may not be narrative. Short prose pieces are considerably shorter than a short story, i.e., usually less than c. 1,000 words. Because of their small size, short prose pieces can attain high levels of lexical density and may thereby resemble prose poems, but the focus in short prose is less on language itself (and thus on rhythm, metre, or other phonological effects) than on the rapid presentation of a situation. A piece of short prose may contain drama, but it"
"Yarn Yarn is a long continuous length of interlocked fibres, suitable for use in the production of textiles, sewing, crocheting, knitting, weaving, embroidery, or ropemaking. Thread is a type of yarn intended for sewing by hand or machine. Modern manufactured sewing threads may be finished with wax or other lubricants to withstand the stresses involved in sewing. Embroidery threads are yarns specifically designed for needlework. The word yarn comes from Middle English, from the Old English ""gearn"", akin to Old High German's ""garn"" yarn, Greek's ""chordē"" string, and Sanskrit's ""hira"" band. Yarn can be made from a number of natural"
"Episode An episode is a coherent narrative unit within a larger dramatic work, such as a radio or television series. The word derives from the Greek term () (""epeisodion""), meaning the material contained between two songs or odes in a Greek tragedy. An episode is a coherent narrative unit within a larger dramatic work. It is frequently used to describe units of television or radio series. An episode is to a sequence as a chapter is to a book. Modern series episodes typically last 20 to 40 minutes in length. The word derives from the Greek term () (""epeisodion""), meaning"
"the following excerpt from Dr. Samuel Johnson's ""Lives of the English Poets"", the first sentence is the main idea: that Joseph Addison is a skilled ""describer of life and manners"". The succeeding sentences are details that support and explain the main idea in a specific way. This advice differs from stock advice for the construction of paragraphs in Japanese (translated as ""danraku"" 段落). Paragraph A paragraph (from the Ancient Greek παράγραφος ""paragraphos"", """"to write beside"""" or """"written beside"""") is a self-contained unit of a discourse in writing dealing with a particular point or idea. A paragraph consists of one or"
"consists of six 'Books', each with a recognizable part of the story, although it is usually published in three volumes. Chapter (books) A chapter is one of the main divisions of a piece of writing of relative length, such as a book of prose, poetry, or law. A chapter book may have multiple chapters and these can be referred to by the things that may be the main topic of that specific chapter. In each case, chapters can be numbered or titled or both. An example of a chapter that has become well known is ""Down the Rabbit-Hole"", which is"
"group of at least five sentences, a paragraph is half a page long, etc."" The website explains, ""Length and appearance do not determine whether a section in a paper is a paragraph. For instance, in some styles of writing, particularly journalistic styles, a paragraph can be just one sentence long."" According to Edwin Herbert Lewis's ""The History of the English Paragraph"" (1894), many of history's greatest writers used one- and two-sentence paragraphs in their works, especially, but not exclusively, in dialogue: Defoe, Bunyan, Laurence Sterne, Spenser, Scott, Dickens, Fielding, Hobbes, Bacon, George Eliot, Johnson, Locke, Lamb, Swift, De Quincey, Addison,"
"Cumulative tale In a cumulative tale, sometimes also called a chain tale, action or dialogue repeats and builds up in some way as the tale progresses. With only the sparest of plots, these tales often depend upon repetition and rhythm for their effect, and can require a skilled storyteller to negotiate their tongue-twisting repetitions in performance. The climax is sometimes abrupt and sobering as in ""The Gingerbread Man."" The device often takes the form of a cumulative song or nursery rhyme. Many cumulative tales feature a series of animals or forces of nature each more powerful than the last. Cumulative"
"Chapter (books) A chapter is one of the main divisions of a piece of writing of relative length, such as a book of prose, poetry, or law. A chapter book may have multiple chapters and these can be referred to by the things that may be the main topic of that specific chapter. In each case, chapters can be numbered or titled or both. An example of a chapter that has become well known is ""Down the Rabbit-Hole"", which is the first chapter from ""Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"". Many novels of great length have chapters. Non-fiction books, especially those used"
"question-answer, or a whole short story. The word ""joke"" has a number of synonyms. To achieve their end, jokes may employ irony, sarcasm, word play and other devices. Jokes may have a punch line, i.e. an ending to make it humorous. A practical joke or prank differs from a spoken one in that the major component of the humour is physical rather than verbal (for example placing salt in the sugar bowl). A ""legend"" (Latin, ""legenda"", ""things to be read"") is a narrative of human actions that are perceived both by teller and listeners to take place within human history"
"by different industries. Below are the images taken by a digital USB microscope. These show how the yarn looks in different kinds of clothes when magnified. Yarn Yarn is a long continuous length of interlocked fibres, suitable for use in the production of textiles, sewing, crocheting, knitting, weaving, embroidery, or ropemaking. Thread is a type of yarn intended for sewing by hand or machine. Modern manufactured sewing threads may be finished with wax or other lubricants to withstand the stresses involved in sewing. Embroidery threads are yarns specifically designed for needlework. The word yarn comes from Middle English, from the"
"From the central idea of ""tree"", which is thin, tall, and spreading, comes an extension to other long or extended things or parts of things, such as ""mwavuli"" 'umbrella', ""moshi"" 'smoke', ""msumari"" 'nail'; and from activity there even come active instantiations of verbs, such as ""mfuo"" ""metal forging"", from ""-fua"" ""to forge"", or ""mlio"" ""a sound"", from ""-lia"" ""to make a sound"". Words may be connected to their class by more than one metaphor. For example, ""mkono"" is an active body part, and ""mto"" is an active natural force, but they are also both long and thin. Things with a"
"Relatively long for Borges (approximately 5,600 words), the story is a work of speculative fiction. The story alludes to many leading intellectual figures both in Argentina and in the world at large, and takes up a number of themes more typical of a novel of ideas. Most of the ideas engaged are in the areas of metaphysics, language, epistemology, and literary criticism. The story unfolds as a first-person narrative and contains many references (see below) to real people, places, literary works and philosophical concepts, besides some fictional or ambiguous ones. It is divided into two parts and a postscript. Events"
"Textus, from which we get “text”, means (or meant) “cloth”. The poem is a cloth, then; a textus, woven with pieces of a hundred threads (thoughts and stories and hypotheses and epigrams), amounting, at once, to less than any of them, and more than all of them. Leaving nearly all of what it says unsaid."" ""A poem is a leaf that tells a book; a page that tells a library. A poem is a hint that nails a thesis to a door."" ""If I weren’t a writer I’d be leading somebody else’s life."" ""Life, all of it, shapes your writing."
"stick. Later huge Linotype machines turned molten lead into casts of letters, lines, sentences and paragraphs. A line of lead in both eras was known as a slug. Slug (publishing) In newspaper editing, a slug is a short name given to an article that is in production. The story is labeled with its slug as it makes its way from the reporter through the editorial process. The AP Stylebook prescribes its use by wire reporters (in a ""keyword slugline"") as follows: ""The keyword or slug (sometimes more than one word) clearly indicates the content of the story."" Sometimes a slug"
"Couplet A couplet is a pair of successive lines of metre in poetry. A couplet usually consists of two successive lines that rhyme and have the same metre. A couplet may be formal (closed) or run-on (open). In a formal (or closed) couplet, each of the two lines is end-stopped, implying that there is a grammatical pause at the end of a line of verse. In a run-on (or open) couplet, the meaning of the first line continues to the second. The word ""couplet"" comes from the French word meaning ""two pieces of iron riveted or hinged together."" The term"
"catena may or may not be a constituent. In syntax, a catena is any element or combination of elements (words or parts of words) that are continuous in the vertical dimension, that is, in the hierarchy of words. The elements form a catena insofar as they are linked together by dependencies. Some dependency grammar trees containing multiple-word lexical items that are catenae but not constituents are now produced. The following trees illustrate phrasal verbs: The verb and particle (in red) in each case constitute a particle verb construction, which is a single lexical item. The two words remain a catena"
"that sound like their meaning, or imitations of sounds. ""Example:"" ""The bees were buzzing"" Formal structure refers to the forms of a text. In the first place, a text is either a novel, a drama, a poem, or some other ""form"" of literature. However, this term can also refer to the length of lines, stanzas, or cantos in poems, as well as sentences, paragraphs, or chapters in prose. Furthermore, such visible structures as dialogue versus narration are also considered part of formal structure. The storyline is the chronological account of events that follow each other in the narrative. Plot includes"