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| implies a discrepancy by depicting circumstances which run contrary to expectations. |
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| a form of writing which employs wit to attack folly and/or expose hypocrisy, depicting a debased or vulgarized world. |
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| a literary or musical work in which the style of an author or work is closely imitated for comic effect or in ridicule. |
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| the way a writer conveys an attitude through word choice, sentence structures and what is actually said. |
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| a retelling of events of the past in the form of narration; the most factual form of fiction. |
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| a form of fiction recognizably bound to the same laws as those which govern reality. |
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| a story which is neither wildly fantastic nor bound by conventions of realism yet offers a heightened sense of reality. |
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| a story of events which go beyond our sense of the natural possibilities in this world. |
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| character encounters a solution to a disharmonious situation which adapts him/her to the order of the world. |
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| the way elements of a plot are located next to one another to contribute to the design of the story. |
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| the ordering of events in a story as an ongoing process with a beginning, middle and end. |
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