Basic terms needed to write about literature
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Allegory | show 🗑
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show | A character who functions as a resisting force to the goals of the protagonist.
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Anticlimax | show 🗑
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Antihero | show 🗑
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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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Conventions | show 🗑
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show | A Latin term meaning "god out of a machine." By extension, the term refers to any artificial device or coincidence used to bring about a resolution.
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Didactic | show 🗑
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show | Eureka! A sudden flash of insight. A startling discovery and/or appearance; a dramatic realization.
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Genre | show 🗑
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Essay | show 🗑
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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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Parable | show 🗑
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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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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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Short Story | show 🗑
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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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Foil | show 🗑
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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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Inclusio | show 🗑
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In medias res | show 🗑
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show | A trope in which the meaning ostensibly expressed “differs sharply from” what the speaker really means.
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show | A plot device in which events turn out contrary to expectation yet are perversely appropriate.
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Dramatic Irony | show 🗑
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Cosmic Irony | show 🗑
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Juxtaposition | show 🗑
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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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Paradox | show 🗑
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Pathetic Fallacy | show 🗑
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Persona | show 🗑
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Prose | show 🗑
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Protagonist | show 🗑
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Stream of Consciousness | show 🗑
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show | A concrete object, scene, or action which has deeper significance because it is associated with something else, often an important idea or theme in the work.
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Natural Symbol | show 🗑
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show | Symbols that have been invested with meaning by a group.
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Literary Symbol | show 🗑
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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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