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General Theoretical
Terms for the UNCA Literature and Language Comprehensive Exams
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Archetype | |
| Author Function | |
| Canon | |
| Conventions | |
| Deconstruction | |
| Dialogic | |
| Discourse | |
| Feminist Criticism | |
| Genre | |
| Grotesque | |
| Hermeneutics | |
| Hybridity (postcolonial) | |
| Intentional Fallacy | |
| Intertextuality | |
| Irony | |
| Linguistics | |
| Marxist Criticism | |
| Metanarrative | |
| Mimesis | |
| Myth | |
| Narratology | |
| New Criticism | |
| New Historicism | |
| Orientalism | |
| Pathetic Fallacy | |
| Parody | |
| Pastiche | |
| Postcolonial | |
| Poststructuralism | |
| Psychoalytical Criticism | |
| Queer Theory | |
| Reader-Response Criticism | |
| Semiotics | |
| Signifier / Signified | |
| Simulacra | |
| Speech Act Theory | |
| Structuralism | |
| Subaltern | |
| Verisimilitude |