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| 8972493573 | anachronism *ex:* University of Wittenberg in Hamlet | a person, scene, event, or other element in literature that fails to correspond with the time or era in which the work is set | 0 | |
| 8972499440 | Malapropism *ex:* Michael Scott from The Office | is an act or habit of misusing words ridiculously, especially by the confusion of words that are similar in sound | 1 | |
| 8972505288 | Amplification *ex:* Charles Dickens | is the use of bare expressions, likely to be ignored or misunderstood by a hearer or reader because of the bluntness. *Emphasis through restatement with additional details* | 2 | |
| 8972510433 | bowdlerize *ex:* Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone vs. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone | to remove parts of a work of literature that are considered indecent | 3 | |
| 8972520740 | epistolary *ex:* Opening of Frankenstein | most or all of the narrative comes to readers through letters or other correspondence rather than a more traditional storytelling manner | 4 | |
| 8972524129 | bete noire *ex:* Politics, money, sex | while not an exclusively literary term, many critics use it to denote the idea of avoidance found in many narratives. Family dramas, for example, are almost obligated to involve some sort of "elephant" in the room. | 5 | |
| 8972529977 | epigraph *ex:* The Handmaid's Tale | many writers like to include quotes or passages at the beginning of their works to reflect the overarching theme or message | 6 | |
| 8972531337 | in media res *ex:* Dante's Inferno | stories that start straight in the middle of the action and builds upon the recent past as the tale unfolds | 7 | |
| 8972536012 | trope *ex:* light vs. darkness imagery; sun vs. moon | frequently used to refer to familiar literary devices, events and archetypes | 8 | |
| 8972538025 | roman a clef *ex:* Law and Order SVU; Hidden Figures | real life figures and adventures oftentimes end up thinly and not-so-thinly appearing in fiction | 9 |
