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1
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genre

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A type of literary work, such as the short story, novel, essay, play, or poem. The term may also be
used to classify literature within a type, such as science fiction stories or detective novels.

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essay

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: Any short composition in prose that undertakes to discuss a matter, express a point of view, or
persuade us to accept a thesis on any subject.

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story

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A narrative involving events, characters, and what the characters say and do

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speculative fiction

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A super category for all genres that deliberately depart from imitating consensus reality of everyday experience, including fantasy, science fiction, and horror, and also their
derivatives, hybrids, and cognate genres.

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allegory

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A form of symbolism in which ideas or abstract qualities are represented as characters or
events in a story, novel, or play.

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gothic

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A story of terror and suspense, usually set in a gloomy old castle or monastery.

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horror

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Fiction that spotlights the supernatural or paranormal and that is meant to evoke apprehension
and fear

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weird fiction

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Dark fantastic fiction often featuring nontraditional alien monsters; in other words, a
combination of horror, fantasy, and science fiction.

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novum

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: The fantastic or supernatural element in a speculative fiction text from which the most
important distinctions stem between the world of the tale and the world of the reader

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portal mode

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: Speculative fiction that begins in the known world but then the characters encounter the
fantastic element or novum by travelling to a different word through magical or supernatural
means.

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immersive mode

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Speculative fiction set in an imagined or mythic past whose characters are native to
it.

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intrusive mode

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Speculative fiction that begins in the known world before the fantastic element or
novum intrudes into reality.

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liminal mode

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: Speculative fiction in which magic might or might not be happening; while fantastic
events themselves might be noteworthy and they may cause chaos, their magical origins barely
raise an eyebrow.

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fantastic (todorov)

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A mode of fiction in which the possible and the impossible are confounded so as to
leave the reader (and often the narrator and/or central character) with no consistent
explanation for the story’s strange events.

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marvellous (todorov)

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A category of fiction in which supernatural, magical, or other wondrous
impossibilities are accepted as normal within an imagined world clearly separated from our own
reality

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uncanny (todorov)

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: A category of fiction in which incredible events can be explained as the products of
the narrator’s or protagonist’s dream, hallucination, or delusion.

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uncanny (freud)

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That which is unfamiliar in the familiar; the feeling we get when an experience that
occurred by chance suddenly feels fateful and inescapable.

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repression

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The exclusion of distressing memories, thoughts, or feelings from the conscious mind.

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projection

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The psychological process which occurs when qualities, feelings, wishes, objects, which the
subject refuses to recognize or rejects in himself, are expelled from the self and located in
another person or thing.

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abcanny

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The assertion of that we did not know, never knew, could not know, that has always been and
will always be unknowable.

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setting

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: The time and place in which the events of a story happen.

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atmosphere

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The emotional content of a scene or setting, usually described in terms of feeling:
sombre, gloomy, joyful, expectant.

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characterization

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The representation of people in fiction—the characters and the way the writer
develops them to represent certain human qualities.

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protagonist

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The main character in a short story or novel.

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antagonist

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The character (or a force such as war or poverty) in a work of fiction whose actions oppose
those of the main character.

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foil

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A character, usually a minor one who emphasizes the qualities of another one through implied
contrast between the two.

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dynamic

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A character who changes significantly over the course of a story

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static

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A character who does not change over the course of a story

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round

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: A character with sufficient complexity to be convincing, true to life.

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flat

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A stereotyped or shallow character, not seeming as complex as a real person.

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plot

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A series of causally related events or episodes that occur in a narrative.

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conflict

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The antagonism between opposing characters or forces that causes tension or suspense in the
plot.

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closed ending

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: A story ending in which all important conflicts are resolved and all significant questions
are answered.

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open ending

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A story ending in which some important conflicts are left unresolved or significant
questions are not answered.

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exposition

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That part of a plot devoted to supplying background information (sometimes through
flashbacks but not always), explaining events that happened before the current action.

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rising action

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The part of a plot concerning the development of complications and conflicts leading to
the climax.

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climax

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The point toward which the action of a plot builds as the conflicts become increasingly intense
or complex; the turning point.

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falling action/denouement

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The part of a story after the climax, in which the consequences of the
conflict are revealed; where the conflict is resolved.

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flashback

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Part of a narrative that interrupts the chronological flow by relating events from the past.

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foreshadowing

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Early clues about what will happen later in a story.

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situational irony

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Lack of agreement between expectation and reality in relation to a specific situation.

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dramatic irony

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A difference between what a character knows or believes and what the better-informed
reader or audience knows to be true.

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point of view

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The angle or perspective from which a story is reported and interpreted.

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narrator

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The person who tells the story to the audience or reader.

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1st-person

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A point of view in which the story is told by one of the fictional characters speaking as “I….”

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3rd-person omniscient

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Point of view where the narrator knows everything about the characters and
events and can move about in time and place and into the minds of all the characters.

47
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3rd-person limited

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Point of view where the story is limited to the observations, thoughts, and feelings
of a single character (not identified as “I”).

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2nd-person

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A point of view in which the story gets told solely, or at least primarily, as an address by the
narrator to someone they call by the second-person pronoun “you,” who is represented as
experiencing that which is narrated.

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reliable

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A narrator who is sincere, trustworthy, and competent.

50
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unreliable

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A narrator who presents a biased or incorrect report that may mislead or distort a reader’s
judgments about other characters and actions.

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frame narrative

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A story that contains another story or stories

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style

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Individuality of expression, achieved in writing through the selection and arrangement of words
and punctuation.

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diction

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Words chosen in writing or speaking.

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syntax

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Sentence structure or word order; the relationship between words and among word groups in
sentences.

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denotation

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The literal dictionary definition of a word.

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connotation

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The associations that attach themselves to a word, deeply affecting its literal meaning.

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concrete imagery

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Imagery based on that which can be touched, seen, or tasted; not abstract.

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metaphor

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A figure of speech that makes an imaginative comparison between two literally unlike
things.

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simile

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: A verbal comparison in which a similarity is expressed directly, using like or as.

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tenor

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The subject of a figure of speech.

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vehicle

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The image, activity, or concept used to illustrate or represent the subject of a figure of speech

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motif

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A pattern of identical or similar images recurring throughout a passage or an entire work.

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symbol

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Something that suggests or stands for an idea, quality, or concept larger than itself

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allusion

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A reference to some character or event in literature, history, or mythology that enriches the
meaning of the passage.

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tone

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: The attitude a writer conveys towards their subject or audience

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verbal irony

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A major discrepancy or difference between the literal meaning of a statement and its
intended meaning.

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theme

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An idea about the world, expressed by a literary text, of general importance to people

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