Talk:Siege of Weinsberg

Ever After

Peacedance, could you explain what the sentence below is about? I can't make sense of it. What is the "device"?

The device the women used in this story was used in the plot of the modern movie Ever After, made in 1998 and based on the fairy tale Cinderella.

-- Fyrael (talk) 05:03, 23 August 2018 (UTC)

Apologies for not responding sooner – I missed your note. The word "device" here means "something devised", as in a plot device, as per 2. and 4. in the definition below:.

From American Heritage Dictionary:

  1. An object designed and manufactured to perform one or more functions.
  2. A literary contrivance, such as parallelism or personification, used to achieve a particular effect.
  3. a. A decorative design, figure, or pattern, as one used in embroidery. See Synonyms at figure.
      b. A graphic symbol or motto, especially in heraldry.
  4. A plan or scheme for accomplishing something: "Now Lydgate might have called at the warehouse, or might have written a   
    message ... and  left it at the door. Yet these simple devices apparently did not occur to him" (George Eliot).

The phrase "plot device" is fairly common in book reviews, but I must have been editing-while-asleep, because I am all about making things clear, and I see what you were thinking. Hope this fixes it. This is a *great* story, and perhaps should get its own page at some point. Peacedance (talk) 16:08, 16 October 2018 (UTC)