| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Hyperbole | a bold overstatement, or extravagant exaggeration of fact or possibility |
| Onomatopoeia | is one or more words that imitate or suggest the source of the sound they are describing |
| Caricature | exaggerates or distorts, for comic effects, a person's distinctive physical features or personality traits |
| Historical Novel | novels that take the setting and characters from events in history as well as making historical events crucial for central characters and the course of the narrative |
| Pathetic Fallacy | a representation of inanimate natural objects that ascribe to them human capabilities |
| Paradox | a statement that seems on its face to be logically contradictory or absurd, yet turns out to be interpretable in a way that makes sense |
| Bildungsroman | development of someone from a young child through trials to gain maturity, "novel of education" |
| victorian novel | historical era in England where queen Victoria ruled |
| Gynocriticism | criticism that concerns itself with developing a specifically female framework for dealing with works written by women |
| Gothic Novel | Novel with supernatural beings set into ghastly castles etc.. |
| Irony | something that is hidden, not to deceive, but rather to achieve a special rhetorical or artistic effect |
| Verbal Irony | when a speaker says one thing but means another |
| Dramatic Irony | when the audience knows more than the characters involved |
| Structural Irony | author introduces a structural feature that serves to sustain a duplex meaning and evaluation throughout the work |
| Romanticism | focusing on nature |
Combine with other sets
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