Understanding Terminology That Describes Nineteenth-Century Drama - CLEP Humanities

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The phrase "Chekhov's Gun" refers to the dramatic storytelling proposition that                     .

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"Chekhov's Gun" is named after the Russian playwright Anton Chekhov, who once commented, "If you say in the first chapter that there is a rifle hanging on the wall, in the second or third chapter it absolutely must go off. If it's not going to be fired, it shouldn't be hanging there." The term is now used to describe any small element that is introduced into the story to be used later in the plotline.

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