Fiction

Fiction

Contributors in Fiction

Fiction

A Tale of Two Cities is a novel by Charles Dickens first published in 1859. It is set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. The book follows several protagonists over the years ...

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Literature; Bestsellers

"Traditional without seeming stale, and romantic without being naïve" (San Francisco Chronicle), this epistolary novel, based on Mary Ann Shaffer's painstaking, lifelong research, is a homage to ...

climax

Literature; Fiction

The turning point of the action in the plot of a play or story. The climax represents the point of greatest tension in the work.

Cross Country

Literature; Bestsellers

Author James Patterson novel is about Alex Cross police detective chasing the leader of a lethal teenage gang.Cross, a Washington, D.C.,detective, takes on a very different quarry—a human monster ...

Faust

Literature; Fiction

The protagonist of a German folk tale who makes a deal with the demon Mephistopheles for knowledge and power beyond the earthly realm. In exchange, he has to give up his soul when he dies. In the ...

alliteration

Literature; Fiction

The repetition of consonant sounds, especially at the beginning of words. Example: Fetched fresh, as I suppose, off some sweet wood. Hopkins, "In the Valley of the Elwy."

Assonance

Literature; Fiction

The repetition of similar vowel sounds in a sentence or a line of poetry or prose, as in "I rose and told him of my woe." Whitman's "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer" contains assonantal "I's" in ...