Advantage and Expectation

Advantage

Advantage noun - The more favorable condition or position in a competition.

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Expectation and advantage are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Expectation" instead a noun "Advantage".

Expectation noun - The act or state of looking forward to some occurrence.

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Advantage and expectation are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Advantage" instead a noun "Expectation".

high	high advantage	high expectation
full	full advantage	full expectation
clear	clear advantage	clear expectation
natural	natural advantage	natural expectation
Other adjectives: complete, sheer, strong, real, crushing, huge, little, new, overall.

Since one element of a successful induction is the expectation of entering trance, the familiarity of the trope can actually work to a hypnotist's advantage, but it's not really done since it's considered rather naff these days.

Source: Hypno Pendulum
Ultimately, even this becomes a Meta Twist, taking advantage of the audience's new expectation that the show will play around with the flashback/forward gimmick.

Source: Meta Twist

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