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  2. Glossary of literary terms - Wikipedia

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    A descriptive word used to modify a verb, adjective, or another adverb. Typically ending in -ly, adverbs answer the questions when, how, and how many times. [3] [11] aisling A poetic genre based on dreams and visions that developed during the 17th and 18th centuries in Irish-language poetry. [12] allegory

  3. Dhalgren - Wikipedia

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    Throughout the novel he is also referred to as "Kid", "Kidd", and often just "kid". Next Tak takes Kid on a short tour of the city. One stop is at a commune in the city park, where Kid sees two women reading a spiral notebook. When Kid looks at it, we see what he reads: The first page contains, word-for-word, the first sentences of Dhalgren. As ...

  4. Novel - Wikipedia

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    The rise of the word "novel" at the cost of its rival, the romance, remained a Spanish and English phenomenon, and though readers all over Western Europe had welcomed the novel(la) or short history as an alternative in the second half of the 17th century, only the English and the Spanish had openly discredited the romance. [citation needed]

  5. List of narrative techniques - Wikipedia

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    Name Definition Example Setting as a form of symbolism or allegory: The setting is both the time and geographic location within a narrative or within a work of fiction; sometimes, storytellers use the setting as a way to represent deeper ideas, reflect characters' emotions, or encourage the audience to make certain connections that add complexity to how the story may be interpreted.

  6. The Age of Reinvention - Wikipedia

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    This provides additional detail on different people—even places—throughout the novel. The reviewers also comment on how Tuil describes things. This is what Ciuraru describes as a "synonym buffet." [5] Tuil writes a series of synonyms separated by forward slashes. For example, Tuil writes, "[Samir] enters the courtroom, frightened/distraught ...

  7. A Farewell to Arms - Wikipedia

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    A Farewell to Arms is a novel by American writer Ernest Hemingway, set during the Italian campaign of World War I. First published in 1929, it is a first-person account of an American, Frederic Henry, serving as a lieutenant (Italian: tenente) in the ambulance corps of the Italian Army. The novel describes a love affair between the American ...

  8. Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle - Wikipedia

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    This part, which one critic called "the last 19th-century Russian novel", [8] takes up nearly half the book. Throughout this part of the novel, the many passages depicting the blossoming of Van and Ada's love vary in rhythm, style and vocabulary—ranging from lustrous, deceptively simple yet richly sensual prose to leering and Baroque satire ...

  9. Genre fiction - Wikipedia

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    Genre fiction developed from various subgenres of the novel (and its "romance" version) during the nineteenth century, [16] along with the growth of the mass-marketing of fiction in the twentieth century: this includes the gothic novel, fantasy, science fiction, adventure novel, historical romance, and the detective novel.