Suspension of disbelief
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Suspension of disbelief, often willing suspension of disbelief, is a person's intentional setting aside of critical thinking, logic, and real-life expectations when experiencing a work of fiction, in
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, a philosopher and poet known for his influence on English literature, coined the turn-of-phrase and elaborated upon it.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge portrait
Deus ex machina
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Deus ex machina is a plot device, a type of denouement in which a seemingly unsolvable problem in a story is suddenly or abruptly resolved by an unexpected and unlikely occurrence. Its function is gen
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Deus ex machina in Euripides's Medea, performed in 2009 in Syracuse, Italy; the sun god sends a golden chariot to rescue Medea.
Characters ascend into heaven to become gods at the end of the 1650 play Andromède.