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Literary notes about sequence (AI summary)

In literature, the word "sequence" is employed in a variety of nuanced ways to signify an ordered progression or arrangement of elements—whether events, ideas, or grammatical structures. For instance, in historical narratives and analyses, authors use "sequence" to meticulously depict the chronological order of events or causes, as seen when the proper sequence of facts or inferences is discussed [1, 2, 3]. In the realm of grammar and rhetoric, it denotes the orderly progression of linguistic elements or tenses [4, 5, 6], suggesting both strict regularity and natural order, as when a narrative or a chain of thought is arranged deliberately [7, 8]. At times, the term also takes on a metaphorical role to express a disruption or deviation from expected order, such as a lack of connection among ideas or events [9, 10, 11]. Thus, across diverse genres—from scholarly essays to creative fiction—"sequence" functions as a key device for structuring, interpreting, and sometimes subverting the conventional flow of content.
  1. But it is necessary in any case to review the sequence of inferences which led to this impression and to examine their correctness.
    — from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross
  2. Let me give you, with as much detail as I can, the sequence of events which have led us to this catastrophe.
    — from The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle
  3. [Pg xii] events in connection with their true causes, and in their real sequence.
    — from The City of God, Volume I by Bishop of Hippo Saint Augustine
  4. But the secondary sequence is far more common.
    — from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane
  5. Inflection of the Imperfect Subjunctive — Sequence of Tenses 153-155 LXIV.
    — from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson
  6. The tense of the subjunctive is usually regulated by the sequence of tenses, in Cicero nearly always with quasi and tamquam sī .
    — from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane
  7. And thus Leibnitz regarded space as a certain order in the community of substances, and time as the dynamical sequence of their states.
    — from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant
  8. The sequence of deeds, images, emotions, suffices on its own account.
    — from How We Think by John Dewey
  9. A sense of a pathos far under the earth stirred up in Syme, and he spoke brokenly and without sequence.
    — from The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare by G. K. Chesterton
  10. There is no rational connection in the sequence of images and ideas.
    — from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. Bradley
  11. Here was a breach of continuity--a rupture in historical sequence!
    — from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

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