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Of or pertaining to the art of writing in any form or style, most especially published works.
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allegory
Literature; Fiction
A symbolic narrative in which the surface details imply a secondary meaning. Allegory often takes the form of a story in which the characters represent moral qualities.
The Rum Diary
Literature; Fiction
Is an early novel by American writer Hunter S. Thompson that was written in the early 1960's but was not published until 1998. The story involves a journalist named Paul Kemp who, ...
big scene
Literature; Fiction
A big scene produces good impact when its drama is powerful and central to the theme. Big scenes should occur at regular intervals, neither bunched too closely together nor strung ...
plot inversion
Literature; Fiction
Events are meaningful to the reader when the reader understand what they signify. Thus for a scene to be meaningful, there must be (1) table-setting to establish what is at stake, ...
point of view
Literature; Fiction
The ‘hidden camera’ through which the reader perceives a scene. It may be inside a focus character (we see that character’s thoughts and reactions to events), it may move among ...
polysyllabism
Literature; Fiction
The tendency to use a big word for effect even when a small word is better.
powderpuff
Literature; Fiction
The authorial habit of being too nice to characters about whom the author cares. Violates the basic principle, if you want your reader to care about your characters, do horrible ...
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