possessive pronoun

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Which Word of the Day means “happening within or being the created world of a story”?

Oh, the heaven and hell wrought by the casual use of a pronoun.
Owning Up to Possession’s Downside|Samantha Harvey|December 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST
He placed particular emphasis on the pronoun when he spoke the title aloud.
Can Bill Bratton Solve De Blasio’s NYPD Dilemma?|Michael Daly|December 5, 2013|DAILY BEAST
There's UP and US, and UT—an old name for the first (and last) tone, do, and WE (the funnest pronoun) and WO, which is woe.
National Scrabble Day: A Poem So You’ll Know All 101 Two-Letter Words|David Bukszpan|April 13, 2013|DAILY BEAST
The pronoun is deliberate: the Sims was one of the first games to be played by women in significant numbers.
SimCity Is Smarter Than You (Even If You’re an Urban Planner)|Josh Dzieza|February 26, 2013|DAILY BEAST

He asks, “What magic is there in the pronoun ‘my,’ that should justify us in overturning the decisions of impartial truth?”
Why Favoritism Is Virtuous: The Case Against Fairness|Stephen T. Asma|December 7, 2012|DAILY BEAST
The subject pronoun, when unemphatic, is not expressed, but understood from the termination of the verb.
Frdric Mistral|Charles Alfred Downer
The relative object pronoun is often repeated as a personal pronoun, so that the verb has its object expressed twice.
Frdric Mistral|Charles Alfred Downer
In earnest appeals we find the nmen also used, with sometimes the praenmen or the possessive m prefixed.
The Private Life of the Romans|Harold Whetstone Johnston
The third personal pronoun—he, she, it—in all its cases is especially uncertain in its references.
English: Composition and Literature|W. F. (William Franklin) Webster
The use of the plural possessive thrilled the heart of the workers; the club was a family possession.
The Leaven in a Great City|Lillian William Betts