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| 7790464006 | Exegesis | Critical interpretation of a text, especially a biblical text; meaning "to lead out" | 0 | |
| 7790464007 | Farce | A type of comedy based on a humorous situation (such as bank robber goes into police station to hide). The situation which provides the humor, not the cleverness of plot or lines. | 1 | |
| 7790464008 | Formalism | Strict observance of the established rules, traditions and methods employed in the arts. Can also refer to the theory of art that relies heavily on the organization of forms in a work rather than on the content. | 2 | |
| 7790464009 | Framing Device | A story in which one or more other stories are told. Ex: Frankenstein, Hamlet | 3 | |
| 7790464010 | Genre | Recognizable and established category of written work... employing such common conventions as will prevent readers or audiences from mistaking it [with] another kind. | 4 | |
| 7790464011 | Gothic | Characterized by gloom and mystery and the grotesque. Ex: Frankenstein | 5 | |
| 7790464012 | Hubris | comes from Aristotle, the Greek tragedies and mythology; protagonists suffering from excessive pride and subsequently being punished by the gods/fate for it | 6 | |
| 7790464013 | Hyperbole | A figure of speech in which an overstatement or exaggeration is used fr deliberate effect | 7 | |
| 7790464014 | Idiom | A specialized vocabulary used by a group of people, jargon or style or manner of expression peculiar to a given people | 8 | |
| 7790464015 | Imagery | The collection of images within a literary work. Used to evoke atmosphere, mood, tension. Ex: crowded, steaming sidewalks flanking streets choked with lines of shimmering, smoking cars suggests oppressive heat and all the psychological tensions that go with it. | 9 | |
| 7790464016 | In media res | In or into the middle of a sequence of events, as in a literary narrative. | 10 | |
| 7790464017 | Intentional fallacy | Assuming from the text what the author intended to mean. | 11 | |
| 7790464018 | Inversion | Reversal of the normal order of words for dramatic effect | 12 | |
| 7790464019 | Irony | A device that depends on the existence of at least two separate and/or contrasting levels of meaning embedded in one message. In verbal irony the speaker says something other than what s/he really means; sarcasm relies on verbal irony. In dramatic irony, the audience is more aware than the characters are in a work. Situational irony occurs when the opposite of what is expected happens. This type of irony often emphasizes that people are caught in forces beyond their comprehension and control. | 13 | |
| 7790464020 | Litotes | A figure of speech consisting of an understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by negating its opposite. Ex: This is no small problem. | 14 |
