surprise ending

collocation in English

meaningsofsurpriseandending

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surprise
noun
uk
/səˈpraɪz/us
/sɚˈpraɪz/
an ...
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ending
noun[C]
uk
/ˈen.dɪŋ/us
/ˈen.dɪŋ/
the last part of ...
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(Definition ofsurpriseandendingfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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But no - the soloist has other devices: a syncopated line, an angular double- and triple-stopped one and finally a race towards and sudden thump of asurpriseending.
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From its riveting opening line... to itssurpriseending, this is a story harder to forget.
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She makes all the guys in the arcade fall for her and then it has asurpriseending.
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The book'ssurpriseendingwas mirrored in real life when her father had a seventh child, a son, a year after the book came out.
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The film is noted for opening with no dialog for the first 16 minutes and for itssurpriseending.
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Cupid's punishment, substitute sacrifices of inferior virgins, brotherly reunions, divine reconciliations, asurpriseending, and the triumph of true love ensue.
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The series consists of unrelated stories depicting paranormal, futuristic, kafkaesque, or otherwise disturbing or unusual events; each story typically features a moral and asurpriseending.
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The second half is marked for repeat, but the conductor may choose whether to omit the "da capo" in order not to risk thesurpriseendingbeing anticipated.
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A characteristic point of his style is that the titles of many of his stories reveal (or at least telegraph) what would otherwise be asurpriseending.
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Stan is soon suspected in the slayings, but there is asurpriseending.
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In asurpriseending, the audience realizes that the entire scene has just been a complex role-playing game between the couple who actually already have multiple children sleeping upstairs.
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The nightmare story ends in the police station with a bogussurpriseendingthat left me feeling used.
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It is basically an iambic trimeter but with asurpriseendingin the last foot, featuring a trochee or spondee that cripples the iambic rhythm.
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When a plot twist happens near the end of a story, especially if it changes one's view of the preceding events, it is known as a "surpriseending".
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His songwriting uses many of the techniques of short story writing, including unreliable narrators, surprise endings, and plot twists.
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Other critics laud the use of plot twists and surprise endings.
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But it is also a roaringly good mystery full of twists, turns and several surprise endings.
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