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== Allegory to Bathos ==
== Allegory to Bathos ==
 
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* [[allegory]]
* [[allegory]]
* [[alliteration]]
* [[alliteration]]
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* [[atmosphere]]
* [[atmosphere]]
* [[ballad]]
* [[ballad]]
* <i>[[bathos]]</i>
* ''[[bathos]]''
 
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== Canon to Convention ==
== Canon to Convention ==
 
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* [[canon]]
* [[canon]]
* <i>[[catharsis]]</i>
* ''[[catharsis]]''
* [[character]]
* [[character]]
* [[climax]]
* [[climax]]
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* [[conflict]]
* [[conflict]]
* [[convention]]
* [[convention]]
 
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== Deconstruction to Diatribe ==
== Deconstruction to Diatribe ==
 
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* [[deconstruction]]
* [[deconstruction]]
* [[dénouement]]
* [[dénouement]]
* [[description]]
* [[description]]
* <i>[[deus ex machina]]</i>
* ''[[deus ex machina]]''
* [[diatribe]]
* [[diatribe]]
 
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== Epic Poetry to Exposition ==
== Epic Poetry to Exposition ==
 
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* [[Epic Poetry | epic poetry]]
* [[Epic Poetry | epic poetry]]
* [[epigraph]]
* [[epigraph]]
* [[epiphany]]
* [[epiphany]]
* <i>[[ethos]]</i>
* ''[[ethos]]''
* [[exegesis]]
* [[exegesis]]
* [[exposition]]
* [[exposition]]
 
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== Fantasy to Freytag’s Formula ==
== Fantasy to Freytag’s Formula ==
 
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* [[fantasy]]
* [[fantasy]]
* [[fiction]]
* [[fiction]]
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* [[foreshadowing]]
* [[foreshadowing]]
* [[Freytag’s Formula]]
* [[Freytag’s Formula]]
 
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== Genre to Lyric ==
== Genre to Lyric ==
 
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* [[genre]]
* [[genre]]
* <i>[[hamartia]]</i>
* ''[[hamartia]]''
* [[hero]]
* [[hero]]
* [[heroic ideal]]
* [[heroic ideal]]
* <i>[[hubris]]</i>
* ''[[hubris]]''
* [[hypertext]]
* [[hypertext]]
* [[hypertext fiction]]
* [[hypertext fiction]]
* [[imagery]]
* [[imagery]]
* [[inciting action]]
* [[inciting action]]
* <i>[[in medias res]]</i>
* ''[[in medias res]]''
* [[irony]]
* [[irony]]
* [[literary criticism]]
* [[literary criticism]]
* [[literary theory]]
* [[literary theory]]
* <i>[[logos]]</i>
* ''[[logos]]''
* [[lyric]]
* [[lyric]]
 
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== Masculinity to Myth ==
== Masculinity to Myth ==
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* [[masculinity]]
* [[masculinity]]
* [[melodrama]]
* [[melodrama]]
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* [[metonymy]]
* [[metonymy]]
* [[milieu]]
* [[milieu]]
* <i>[[mimesis]]</i>
* ''[[mimesis]]''
* [[monologue]]
* [[monologue]]
* [[motif]]
* [[motif]]
* [[mood]]
* [[mood]]
* [[myth]]
* [[myth]]
 
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== Narration to Oration ==
== Narration to Oration ==
 
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* [[narration]]
* [[narration]]
* [[narrative]]
* [[narrative]]
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* [[onomatopoeia]]
* [[onomatopoeia]]
* [[oration]]
* [[oration]]
 
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== Pace to Protagonist ==
== Pace to Protagonist ==
 
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* [[pace]]
* [[pace]]
* [[paradox]]
* [[paradox]]
* [[parody]]
* [[parody]]
* <i>[[pathos]]</i>
* ''[[pathos]]''
* <i>[[peripeteia]]</i>
* ''[[peripeteia]]''
* [[personification]]
* [[personification]]
* [[plot]]
* [[plot]]
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* [[protagonist]]
* [[protagonist]]
* [[pun]]
* [[pun]]
 
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== Resolution to Romance ==
== Resolution to Romance ==
 
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* [[resolution]]
* [[resolution]]
* [[reversal]]
* [[reversal]]
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* [[rising action]]
* [[rising action]]
* [[romance]]
* [[romance]]
 
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== Satire to Syntax ==
== Satire to Syntax ==
 
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* [[satire]]
* [[satire]]
* [[science fiction]]
* [[science fiction]]
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* [[synesthesia]]
* [[synesthesia]]
* [[syntax]]
* [[syntax]]
 
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==Text to Zeugma ==
==Text to Zeugma ==
 
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* [[text]]
* [[text]]
* [[theme]]
* [[theme]]
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* [[verisimilitude]]
* [[verisimilitude]]
* [[zeugma]]
* [[zeugma]]
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== External Links ==
== External Links ==
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* [http://web.ubc.ca/okanagan/critical/links.html Words of Art] — A list of terms for the study of art by Robert J. Belton at Okanagan University College.
* [http://web.ubc.ca/okanagan/critical/links.html Words of Art] — A list of terms for the study of art by Robert J. Belton at Okanagan University College.


 
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