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| 1 | in the midst of things | 20 sets | |
| 2 | in the middle of things | 19 sets | |
| 3 | in or into the middle of a sequence of events as in a literary narrative | 11 sets | |
| 4 | latin for "in the midst of things," i.e. beginning an epic poem in the middle of the action. | 7 sets | |
| 5 | when the narrative starts in the middle of the story instead of from its beginning. the characters, setting, and conflict are often introduced through a series of flashbacks or through characters relating past events to each other. | 7 sets | |
| 6 | in or into the middle of a plot; into the middle of things | 6 sets | |
| 7 | a piece of writing that begins in the middle of the action | 5 sets | |
| 8 | in the middle of the action | 4 sets | |
| 9 | in the middle of things. | 4 sets | |
| 10 | at a critical point in the development of the action: referring to the principle that epics and other narratives should begin literally in the middle of things and postpone previous events to later in the story. | 2 sets | |
| 11 | starting "in the middle of things," as in literary narrative | 2 sets | |
| 12 | when the narrative starts in the middle of the story instead of from its beginning. the characters, setting, and conflict are often introduced through a series of flashbacks or through characters relating past events to each other | 2 sets | |
| 13 | in the middle of | 2 sets | |
| 14 | beginning a story midway in the events before explaning the context or preceding actions. | 2 sets | |
| 15 | in the midst of things. | 2 sets | |
| 16 | technique of starting a story in the middle and then using a flashback to tell what happened earlier | 2 sets | |
| 17 | refers to an artistic technique | 2 sets | |
| 18 | the midst of things | 2 sets | |
| 19 | in the middle | 2 sets | |
| 20 | (in the middle of things) when the story starts in the middle of an action w/out exposition | 1 set | |
| 21 | most epics begin this way | 1 set | |
| 22 | a latin phrase describing a narrative that begins "in the middle of things" | 1 set | |
| 23 | meaning in the midst of things | 1 set | |
| 24 | "in the middle of things" -- a literary device -- beginning a narrative in the middle of the action (when used, flashbacks maybe necessary.) | 1 set | |
| 25 | begins in the middle of action | 1 set | |
| 26 | refers to a literary and artistic technique | 1 set | |
| 27 | in the midst of things, latin | 1 set | |
| 28 | epic convention that means to begin in the middle of the story | 1 set | |
| 29 | "in the midst of things" | 1 set | |
| 30 | "in the middle of things"; a nerrative which begins in the middle of an important event rather than at a conversational point of exposition | 1 set | |
| 31 | a story that begins "in the middle of" its action | 1 set | |
| 32 | is a literary and artistic technique where the narrative starts in the middle of the story | 1 set | |
| 33 | refers to a literary artistic technique where the narrative starts in the middle of the story instead of from its beginning | 1 set | |
| 34 | a story that begins right in the middle and works back to the end. | 1 set | |
| 35 | the story begins in the middle of the plot | 1 set | |
| 36 | where a narrative starts in the middle of the story instead of from its beginning | 1 set | |
| 37 | when the narrative startes in the middle of the story for effect | 1 set | |
| 38 | "in the middle" | 1 set | |
| 39 | beginning in the middle | 1 set | |
| 40 | starting in the middle of things | 1 set | |