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Fiction
Subplot
Literature; Fiction
A subsidiary or subordinate or parallel plot in a play or storey that coexists with the main plot.
Understatement
Literature; Fiction
A figure of speech in which a writer or speaker says less than what he or she means; the opposite of exaggeration. The last line of Frost's "Birches" illustrates this literary device: One could do ...
Tone
Literature; Fiction
The implied attitude of a writer toward the subject and characters of a work.
Synecdoche
Literature; Fiction
A figure of speech in which a part is substituted for the whole. An example: Lend me a hand. See Metonymy.
Syntax
Literature; Fiction
The grammatical order of words in a sentence or line of verse or dialogue. The organisation of words and phrases and clauses in sentences of prose, verse, and dialogue
Theme
Literature; Fiction
The idea of a literary work abstracted from its details of language, character, and action, and cast in the form of a generalization."
Tale
Literature; Fiction
A storey that narrates strange happenings in a direct manner, without detailed descriptions of character.
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