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The grammatical order of words in a sentence or line of verse or dialogue. The organization of words and phrases and clauses in sentences of prose, verse, and dialogue
Industry:Literature
The idea of a literary work abstracted from its details of language, character, and action, and cast in the form of a generalization."
Industry:Literature
A story that narrates strange happenings in a direct manner, without detailed descriptions of character.
Industry:Literature
A figure of speech involving a comparison between unlike things using like, as, or as though. An example: My love is like a red, red rose.
Industry:Literature
The way an author chooses words, arranges them in sentences or in lines of dialogue or verse, and develops ideas and actions with description, imagery, and other literary techniques. See Connotation, Denotation, Diction, Figurative language, Image, Imagery, Irony, Metaphor, Narrator, Point of view, Syntax, and Tone.
Industry:Literature
An object or action in a literary work that means more than itself, that stands for something beyond itself.
Industry:Literature
A literary work that criticizes human misconduct and ridicules vices, stupidities, and follies.
Industry:Literature
