OPENINGSENTENCE
Opening sentence
At the beginning of a written work stands the opening sentence. Considered "most important", the opening sentence needs to entice the reader and sets the subject, the tone and possibly the style for the whole work, although this does not have to be obvious. David Lodge describes the opening sentence as the "threshold" of the novel. The opening line is part or all of the opening sentence that may start the lead paragraph. For older texts the Latin term "incipit" is in use for the very first words of the opening sentence.The above text is a snippet from Wikipedia: Opening sentence
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