Literature

Literature

Of or pertaining to the art of writing in any form or style, most especially published works.

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zipper story

Literature; Fiction

A particular form of story involving two (or more) alternating strands, which in the story’s beginning appear completely unrelated but which over time come closer and closer ...

white room syndrome

Literature; Fiction

An authorial imagination inadequate to the situation at hand; most common in the beginning of a story. “She awoke in a white room.” The white room is obviously the white piece of ...

watson

Literature; Fiction

A supporting character whose principal purpose is to voice the reader’s confusions and concerns, so that the protagonist is given an opportunity to answer them without resorting ...

voice

Literature; Fiction

"The narrational form used. Often confused with point of view, but it is distinct. The same scene, told from the point of view of the same character, will have a very different ...

onstage

Literature; Fiction

Events which are shown directly to the reader, who becomes a real-time observer while the action takes place. Onstage events are more dramatic and the reader weights them more ...

organ music

Literature; Fiction

Details which seek to countersink an emotional response in the reader even before anything happens (such as crackling lightning and rain outside a window before anyone’s ...

out-of-whack event

Literature; Fiction

In Aristotelian drama, the story concerns a character whose stable life is knocked out of whack by an external force. The remainder of the story concerns his attempts to put his ...