macguffin
IPA: mʌgˈʌfɪn
Root Word: MacGuffin
noun
- (narratology) A plot element or other device used to catch the audience's attention and maintain suspense, but whose exact nature has fairly little influence over the storyline.
Examples of "macguffin" in Sentences
- The MacGuffin is the identity of that person.
- There is no reason to call the money a MacGuffin.
- The 'Allspark' is a textbook example of a Macguffin.
- Almost everything in every movie would be a MacGuffin.
- Any reasonable critic would see it as a simple MacGuffin.
- One might say that is the archetypal macguffin in the fantasy genre.
- An example of an algorithm using a codebook is the MacGuffin cipher.
- A MacGuffin is one example of a plot device, but not the only example.
- If not explicitly, then implicitly in the definition of the MacGuffin used.