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"Can one nursery rhyme explain the secrets of the universe? Well, not exactly--but it can help you understand the difference between bildungsroman, epigram, and epistolary."--dust jacket. Full description
Table of Contents:
- Story
- Plot
- Metafiction
- The lenses of psychic distance
- Immediacy
- Irony
- Red herring
- Suspension of disbelief
- Names
- Leitmotif
- Avant-Garde
- Cause and effect
- Stream of consciousness
- Legend
- Vocabulary and syntax
- Showing and telling
- Dialogue
- Interior monologue
- Setting
- Sentimentality
- Title
- Mechanics
- Transitions
- Foreshadowing
- Insertion
- Allegory
- Epigram
- Fairy Tale
- Farce
- F__K
- Intertextuality
- Keyboard digression
- Picaro
- Sex in the story
- Revision
- Translation
- Style
- Premise
- Flashback
- Coincidence
- Formula
- Clichâe
- Sentence diagram
- Hero (not)
- Description
- Repetition
- Prologue
- Unreliable narrators
- Simile, Metaphor, and Conceit
- Frame story
- Detail
- Dialect, Ain't it?
- Epistolary novel
- Diction
- Symbolism
- Point of view
- Beginning
- Suspense
- Stereotype
- Exposition
- Research
- Deus ex machina
- Character
- Pathetic fallacy
- Bildungsroman
- Denouement
- Fable
- Parable
- Myth
- Mise-en-Scáene
- Roman áa Clef
- Ambiguity
- Verisimilitude
- Catharsis
- Allusion
- Archetype
- Oxymoron
- Structure
- Tale
- Short short story
- Character
- Character presentation (indirect method)
- Character presentation (direct method)
- Narrator
- Subplot
- Grotesque
- Science fiction
- Humors
- Tragedy
- Epilogue
- Tour de Force
- Introduction, preface, foreword
- Appendix.