40 literary terms you should know
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- Aphorism
- Apostrophe
- Applicability
- Bete noire
- Bildungsroman
- Bowdlerize
- Byronic hero
- Caesura
- Death of the author
- Denouement
- Didactic
- Epigraph
- Epistolary
- Fin de siecle
- Foil
- Hamartia
- Heresy of paraphrase
- Hubris
- Humours
- In medias res
- Intertextuality
- Irony
- Literary agent hypothesis
- Magic realism
- Malapropism
- Meiosis
- Meta
- Mise en scene
- Picaresque
- Purple prose
- Roman a clef
- Scene a faire
- Sobriquet
- Syllogism
- Synecdoche
- Tranche de vie
- Trope
- Ubi sunt
- Unreliable narrator
- Verisimilitude
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