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In literature, "fracture" is employed in a variety of contexts to evoke both literal and metaphorical breaks. It often describes natural splits in solid materials, as when authors detail the crisp, flinty fracture of a rock [1][2] or note the fine, marble-like fracture in a gem [3]. In medical and anatomical narratives, the term denotes the disruption of continuity in bones or tissues—ranging from the careful reduction of a cranial fracture [4] to the more dramatic compound fractures that underpin scenes of violence or misfortune [5][6]. Additionally, "fracture" can serve as a metaphor for sudden disruptions or divisions within a narrative, reflecting not only physical breakage but also the shattering of order or stability [7][8].
  1. 633, be a line of fracture traversing a rock, and let a b, Fig.
    — from The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
  2. This is a bright green hard compact rock with flinty fracture and not effervescing with an acid.
    — from Observations of a Naturalist in the Pacific Between 1896 and 1899, Volume 1Vanua Levu, Fiji by H. B. (Henry Brougham) Guppy
  3. it appears to be of a very fine grain the fracture like that of marble.
    — from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark and Meriwether Lewis
  4. In either case the cranial base, as well as the vertex, will be liable to fracture.
    — from Aesop's Fables by Aesop
  5. The wounds of the face was superficial; the real injury was a depressed fracture of the skull, extending right up through the motor area.
    — from Dracula by Bram Stoker
  6. In an instant I was precipitated and had the misfortune to fracture my arm.
    — from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition by Edgar Allan Poe
  7. But drawing it with violence, he snapped it in two, and all Mathura resounded with the noise which its fracture occasioned.
    — from Curiosities of Superstition, and Sketches of Some Unrevealed Religions by W. H. Davenport (William Henry Davenport) Adams
  8. It was as if a fracture in delicate crystal had begun, and he was afraid of any movement that might make it fatal.
    — from Middlemarch by George Eliot

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