English Heroism and Greatness Literary Terms
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 psychological fiction | A work of literature that exposes the inner world of a character in depth |
| internal monologue | When the characters thoughts, emotions, and feelings are revealed |
| Medieval Romance | Literature that chronicles the adventures and love of a knight |
| satire | Humurous writing intended to point out errors, falsehoods, foibles, and failings |
| allegory | A work in which each element symbolizes something else |
| parallelism | A rhetorical technique used to emphasize equal value/weight of ideas by expressing them in the same grammatical form |
| pathos | A quality in a work that arouses the reader's pity, horror, or compassion for a character |
| anti-hero | A character who lacks the qualities generally associated with a hero |
| alienation | A modern theme that focuses on the withdrawl or separation of a person from his/her society |
| magical realism | A kind of fiction that is for the most part realistic, but that contains elements of fantasy |
| paradox | A seemingly contradictory statement, idea, or event |
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