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Noun Concept
Categories: Ancient Greek theatre, Narratology, Narrative techniques, Latin literary phrases, Articles with short description
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deus ex machina  Apo michanis Theos  black box  Dea ex Machina  dei ex machina
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Any active agent who appears unexpectedly to solve an insoluble difficulty WordNet 3.0
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Any active agent who appears unexpectedly to solve an insoluble difficulty WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
Deus ex machina Wikipedia
Latin term meaning "god from a device", and is used to indicate a person or event which provides a sudden, unexpected solution to a story. Wikipedia Disambiguation
Plot device Wikidata
IS A
causal agent
plot device
DESCRIBED BY SOURCE
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia
DIFFERENT FROM
grand piano in the bushes
DISCOVERER OR INVENTOR
Aeschylus
WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
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deus ex machina
Wikipedia
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deus ex machina
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deus ex machina
Wikipedia Redirections
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Apo michanis Theos, black box (fiction), Dea ex Machina, dei ex machina, Dei ex machinis, deus-ex-machina, Deus ex-machina, Deus ex Machina, Deus Ex Machina, deus ex machine, deux ex machina, Dues ex machina, God by machine, god from the machine, God out of a machine, God out of the machine
Wikidata Alias
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deus ex machine, god from the machine

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