Definitions from Wiktionary (Chekhov's gun)

▸ noun:  (literature) A dramatic principle that states that every element in a story must be necessary, and irrelevant elements should be removed.
▸ noun:  An element that is introduced early in the story whose significance to the plot does not become clear until later.


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