Basic terms needed to write about literature
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| show | story or poem in which characters, settings, and events stand for other people or events or for abstract ideas or qualities; a symbol story.
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| show | A character who functions as a resisting force to the goals of the protagonist.
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| show | An often disappointing, sudden end to an intense situation.
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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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| show | Eureka! A sudden flash of insight. A startling discovery and/or appearance; a dramatic realization.
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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 work that makes fun of another work by imitating some aspect of the writer’s style.
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| show | An outrageously exaggerated, humorous story that is obviously unbelievable.
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| show | A scene that interrupts the normal chronological sequence of events in a story to depict something that happened at an earlier time.
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| Frame Story | show 🗑
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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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| show | “In the midst of things” – standard of epic poetry where the action begins in the middle instead of at the beginning.
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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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| 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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| 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 | Writing in which the printer determines the length of the line; in poetry, the poet determines the length of the line.
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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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| show | Type of symbolism which has been created by an author for use in that one literary piece.
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| show | The central or dominating idea in a literary work; the abstract concept made concrete in persons, actions, or images.
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| show | The sense that what one reads is "real," or at least realistic and believable.
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