Basic terms needed to write about literature
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| Allegory | show 🗑
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| Antagonist | show 🗑
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| Anticlimax | show 🗑
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| show | A protagonist who carries the action of the literary piece but does not embody the classic characteristics of courage, strength, and nobility.
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| show | A novel in which an adolescent protagonist comes to adulthood by a process of experience and disillusionment. (Coming of age novel)
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| show | Broad satire; taking tragic drama and exaggerating it into ridiculousness.
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| show | One element is thrown into opposition to another for the sake of emphasis or clarity.
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| show | This term describes traditions for each genre, which, in turn, help to define each genre.
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| Deus ex machina | show 🗑
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| show | Descriptive of fiction or nonfiction that teaches a specific lesson or moral or provides a model of correct behavior or thinking.
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| show | The major category into which a literary work fits. The basic divisions of literature are prose, poetry, and drama.
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| show | A short piece of nonfiction prose in which the writer discusses some aspect of a subject.
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| Myth | show 🗑
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| show | In its broadest sense, any extended fictional prose narrative focusing on a few primary characters but often involving scores of secondary characters.
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| show | A relatively short, didactic story that teaches a moral, or lesson about how to lead a good life.
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| Romance | show 🗑
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| show | The use of humor to ridicule and expose the shortcomings and failures of society, individuals, and institutions, often in the hope that change and reform are possible.
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| show | "A brief prose tale," as Edgar Allan Poe labeled it. This work of narrative fiction may contain description, dialogue and commentary, but usually plot functions as the engine driving the art.
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| Tall tale | show 🗑
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| Flashback | show 🗑
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| show | A character who acts as contrast to another character; these are characters who are essentially similar but who have one major difference or who make opposite choices.
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| show | The result of inserting one or more small stories within the body of a larger story that encompasses the smaller ones.
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| show | A literary device where words or concepts are repeated at the start and finish of an idea, and these work as bookends or an envelope to enclose a concept or idea.
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| In medias res | show 🗑
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| Verbal Irony | show 🗑
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| show | A plot device in which events turn out contrary to expectation yet are perversely appropriate.
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| show | The quality exhibited in words spoken by a character in a play or narrative who, because of his ignorance of present or future circumstances that the audience is aware of, does not realize how the words apply to his situation.
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| Cosmic Irony | show 🗑
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| show | Poetic and rhetorical device in which normally unassociated ideas, words, or phrases are placed next to one another, creating an effect of surprise and wit.
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| Metamorphosis | show 🗑
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| show | A recurring image, word, phrase, action, idea, object, or situation used throughout a work (or in several works by one author), unifying the work by tying the current situation to previous ones, or new ideas to the theme.
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| show | A statement or situation that at first seems impossible or oxymoronic, but which solves itself and reveals meaning.
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| Pathetic Fallacy | show 🗑
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| Persona | show 🗑
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| Prose | show 🗑
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| show | The main or principal character in a work; often considered the hero or heroine.
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| show | A form of writing which replicates the way the human mind works. Ideas are presented in random order; thoughts are often unfinished.
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| Symbol | show 🗑
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| show | Objects and occurrences from nature to symbolize ideas commonly associated with them.
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| Conventional Symbol | show 🗑
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| show | Type of symbolism which has been created by an author for use in that one literary piece.
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| Theme | show 🗑
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