meanings of events, while biographers speculate about a writer's own motivations - conscious or unconscious - in a literary work. Psychological approaches are also used to describe and analyze the reader s personal responses to a text.fiction - novels written for the mass market, intended to be a good read , - often exciting, titillating, thrilling. Historically they have been very popular but critically sneered at as being of sub-literary quality. The earliest ones were the dime novels of the 19th century, printed on newsprint (hence pulp fiction) and sold for ten cents. - the moment in a story when previously unknown or withheld information is revealed to the protagonist, resulting in the discovery of the truth of his or her situation and, usually, a decisive change in course for that character. - the part of a story or drama which occurs after the climax and which establishes a new norm, a new state of affairs-the way things are going to be from then on. - (also spelled rime) - the similarity between syllable sounds at the end of two or more lines . Some kinds of rhyme include: couplet - a pair of lines rhyming consecutively; eye rhyme - words whose spellings would lead one to think that they rhymed (eg: slough/tough/cough/bough/though/hiccough; love/move/prove; daughter/laughter); feminine rhyme - two syllable rhyme consisting of stressed syllable followed by unstressed; masculine rhyme - similarity between terminally stressed syllables. - the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of verse or (less often) prose. - an extended fictional prose narrative about improbable events involving characters that are quite different from ordinary people. Knights on a quest for a magic sword and aided by characters like fairies and trolls would be examples of things found in romance fiction. In popular use, the modem romance novel is a formulaic love story (boy meets girl, obstacles interfere, they overcome obstacles, they live happily ever after). Computer software is available for constructing these stock plots and providing stereotyped characters. Consequently, the books usually lack literary merit. - A story of the exploits of a hero, or the story of a family told through several generations. - Literary mode based on criticism of people and society through ridicule. The satirist aims to reduce the practices attacked by laughing scornfully at them - and being witty enough to allow the reader to laugh, also. Ridicule, irony, exaggeration, and several other techniques are almost always present. The satirist may insert serious statements of value or desired behavior, but most often he relies on an implicit moral code, understood by his audience and paid lip service by them. The satirist s goal is to point out the hypocrisy of his target in the hope that either the target or the audience will return to a real following of the code. Thus, satire is inescapably moral even when no explicit values ​​are promoted in the work, for the satirist works within the framework of a widely spread value system. Many of the techniques of satire are devices of comparison, to show the similarity or contrast between two things. - A form of sneering criticism in which disapproval is often expressed as ironic praise. - In drama, a scene is a subdivision of an act. In modem plays, scenes usually consist of units of action in which there are no changes in the setting or breaks in the continuity of time. According to traditional conventions, a scene changes when the location of the action shifts or when a new character enters. - The written text of a play, which includes the dialogue between characters, stage directions, and often other expository information.Action novel - a novel in which futuristic technology or otherwise altered scientific principles contribute in a significant way to the adventures. Often the novel assumes a set of rules or principles or facts and then traces their logical consequences in some form.novel - a type of novel, popular in the 18lh century, that overemphasizes emotion and seeks to create emotional responses in the reader. The type also usually features an overly optimistic view of the goodness of human nature. - A novel incorporating the same characters and often the same setting as a previous novel. Sometimes the events and situations involve a continuation of the previous novel and sometimes only the characters are the same and the events are entirely unrelated to the previous novel. Occasionally a sequel is written by an author different from that of the original novel. - Several novels related to each other, by plot, setting, character, or all three. Book marketers like to refer to multi-volume novels as sagas. - The time, place, physical details, and circumstances in ...
