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| false notion; statement or argument based on false or invalid inferences |
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| belief that judges a literary work solely on when an author's statements of implied intentions are false |
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| made unintentionally because of language barriers; misunderstood definition, ect. |
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| image or fantastic invention created by the mind; capricious or impulsive notion |
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| light dramatic work with highly improbable plot situations, exciting characters, and often slapstick elements used to create humor |
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| technique in writing when an author temporarily interupts the order, construction or meaning of the writing for a particular effect |
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| to prevent from being successful; to obscure or confuse |
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| type or class; category of artistic composition of music or literature |
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| story of terror or suspense usually in a gloomy castle or old monestary |
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| predominant influence, as of state, region, or group over authors or others |
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| unconscious but accepted error in syntax |
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| invasion of the normal syntactic order of words |
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| figure of speech in which statements are exaggerated; used to evoke strong feelings |
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| pastoral illustration of a subject; collected representations illustrating a subject |
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| simple descriptive work in poetry or prose that deals with rustic life or pastoral scenes or suggests a mood of peace and contentment |
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| use of vivid or descriptive language to represent objects, actions, or ideas |
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| literary state characterized by the use of details and mental associations to evoke subjective and sensory impressions |
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| modern term for a device of repetition commonly found in ballads; involves repetition of lines or stanzas with small but crucial changes made to a few words from one to the next |
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| "In the middle of things"-- common technique of storytelling in which the narrator begins the story at a point in the middle of the action |
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| shaping of text meanings by other texts; can refer to an author's borrowing and transformation of a prior tect or of a reader's inferring of one text relating to another |
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| use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning |
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| one of two types of formal satire characterized by contempt and abusive language; named after the Roman poet Juvenal |
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