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| 5420479698 | Reliability | This refers to the trustworthuness of a narrator. For example, Nick Carraway in the Great Gatsby and Huck Finn in the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn are not trustworthy narrators. | 0 | |
| 5420493077 | Theme | The main idea of a literary text. | 1 | |
| 5420495834 | Bildungsroman | This is a coming of age novel. | 2 | |
| 5420498033 | Circular Narrative | This is a narrative technique where an author gradually reveals information as the narrative is repeated--sometimes from different points of view, sometimes from a single point of view that is expanded. | 3 | |
| 5420508668 | Digression | This is a temporary departure from one topic to another related topic. | 4 | |
| 5420516040 | Dystopia | This is the opposite of a utopia. It's the creation of a world in which we would not want to live. | 5 | |
| 5420518996 | Flashback | This is a scene that interrupts the present action of the narrative in order to depict an earlier event. | 6 | |
| 5420521717 | Flash-Forward | This is a scene that interrupts the present action of a narrative in order to preview future events. | 7 | |
| 5420525543 | Limited Narrator | This is a point of view that is not all knowing. | 8 | |
| 5420526659 | Utopia | An imagined place or state of being where everything is perfect. | 9 | |
| 5420531697 | Revenge Tragedy | This is a popular play form of the English Renaissance, loosely based on the works of Seneca, an ancient Roman playwright. It is about getting even, often in a bloody manner. | 10 | |
| 5420540940 | Anticlimax | This is a reversal of expectations, a kind of dissapointment. | 11 | |
| 5420543033 | Epigraph | This is a writing at the beginning of a narrative (or at the section of a narrative) that tends to establish either tone or theme. | 12 | |
| 5420547391 | Epilogue | This is the final section of a text that occurs after the conclusion of the main plot. In a play, this is typically a final soliloquy that serves to ie up loose ends. | 13 | |
| 5420554435 | Episodic Structure | This is when an author creates a series of narratives that are loosly connected by a larger thematic significance. Tim O'Brian's The Things They Carried are examples of novels that use this. | 14 | |
| 5420561157 | Epistolary Novel | This is a novel in which the plot is developed solely through letters. | 15 | |
| 5420564480 | Atmosphere | This is the mood or general feeling created by a text. | 16 | |
| 5420568280 | Bathos | This is the unintended result of a writier's attempt at pathos, or emotional appeal. This is unintended and when the emotion goes to far and everything is considered overly sentimental. | 17 | |
| 5420575788 | Catharsis | This is the emotional release an audience feels at the end of a tragedy. | 18 | |
| 5420578910 | First Person Point of View | This refers to a narrative being told from the perspective of a character who uses the word "I." | 19 |
