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Why are comics and poems alike: Sequence p1

A sequence is a succession of images in regard to the actions taking place in the different scenes of a story, which are implicitly related one to each other. Regularity means to favor the elements in an equal scale or shape to create an order or a correspondence. Predictability is to use such a pattern, order or correspondence for the reader to find what they is waiting to find. Thus, the order in which we present the elements does matter. It conditions the imagination to the following movement and the “what” we’re to tell. Since the order of words affects the sequence of the poem—words and symbols are, after all, the compounding features of a poem— it affects the predictability and regularity given the fact predictability and regularity make metrics up, the rhythm in which verses are read.

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The order of elements does affect the result

And here I am again trying to mix what looks like water and oil… Let’s start with the most obvious of questions.

WHAT’S A SEQUENCE? OXFORD DEFINITION

This time, since I’m consulting a digital online version —so I can just copy-paste instead of typing, the dictionary is an Oxford and not my loyal Merriam Webster.

sequence /ˈsiːkw(ə)ns/

I. noun

1. a particular order in which related things follow each other  • the content of the programme should follow a logical sequence • [ mass noun ] the poems should be read in sequence .

2. [Music] a repetition of a phrase or melody at a higher or lower pitch. • a restless search for interesting harmonic sequences.

3. [Biochemistry] the order in which amino-acid or nucleotide residues are arranged in a protein, DNA, etc. • these are enzymes which will cleave only at specific base sequences in the DNA.

4. a set of related events, movements, or items that follow each other in a particular order

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6. [Mathematics] an infinite ordered series of numerical quantities.

No, this isn’t useful yet. And I’ll have to translate and apologize for, I don’t remember what book this is from.

WHAT’S A SEQUENCE? MATHEMATICS’ POV

<<In Mathematics, a succession or whole sequence is a whole numbers succession (in other words, an ordered list). A whole succession can be specified explicitly through a formula for their n-th terms; or implicitly by establishing a correspondence among its terms. E.g. An implicit description for the Fibonacci succession  0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13… would be; “a succession is one to start with the numbers 0 and 1; adding two of the consecutive numbers to obtain the following one”>>.

Things begin to make sense. But it is not enough yet….

TO BE CONTINUED

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