Literary Techniques

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• Allusion
  Introduction: Four Forms (with examples from Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
  • Biblical allusions: types
  
• Epiphanies
• Pathetic Fallacy
• Rhetoric: Organization and Arument
• Tropes
• How to Begin? Sample Opening Paragraphs
• Sage-Writing Techniques
• Characterization
  • Introduction
  • The family-systems approach
• Plot and Narrative Structure
  • Introduction
  • Narrative "Annexes" in Victorian Fiction
  • The Flashback
  • Point of view
  • Point of view and Narrative Distance
  • Victorian and Modrn Endings
• The protagonist
  • Aristotle's definition of a protagonist
  • Carl Jung's Theory of the Effective Protagonist
• Setting and description
  • Introduction
  • Word Painting
    • George Eliot
    • Examples from Ann Radcliffe
    • Examples from John Ruskin
    • Being There: The Role of Word-Painting in Ruskin's Art Criticism
    • Word-Painting As Interpretation in Ruskin's Art Criticism
  • [See also Pathetic Fallacy]
• Image, Symbol, and Motif
  • The Tropes
  • Biblical Types and Literary Symbolism
• Theme versus Subject

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• Literary Modes and Genres
• Allegory
• The Grotesque
• Realism
• Satire
• Suspense

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Last modified 7 September 2007