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pathetic fallacy

Literature; General

Reflecting a character's (usually the protagonist) mood in the atmosphere or inanimate objects—for example, the storm in William Shakespeare's King Lear, which mirrors Lear's mental deterioration.

unreliable narrator

Literature; General

The narrator of the story is not sincere, or introduces a bias in his narration and possibly misleads the reader, hiding or minimizing events, characters, or motivations.

red herring

Literature; General

A rhetorical tactic of diverting attention away from an item of significance. For example, in mystery fiction, an innocent party may be purposefully cast as highly suspicious through emphasis or ...

poetic justice

Literature; General

Poetic justice is a literary device in which virtue is ultimately rewarded or vice punished, often in modern literature by an ironic twist of fate intimately related to the character's own conduct.

retronym

Literature; General

A retronym is a new name for an object or concept to differentiate the original form or version of it from a more recent form or version. Examples of retronyms are "acoustic guitar" (coined when ...