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adventure novel
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a novel where exciting events are more important than character development and sometimes theme.
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allegory
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a figurative work in which a surface narrative carries a secondary, symbolic or metaphorical meaning.
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apologue
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a moral fable, usually featuring personified animals or inanimate objects which act like people to allow the author to comment on the human condition. often, the apologue highlights the irrationality of mankind.
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blank verse
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unrhymed iambic pentameter.
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burlesque
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a work designed to ridicule a style, literary form, or subject matter either by treating the exalted in a trivial way or by discussing the trivial in exalted terms.
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caesura
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a pause, metrical or rhetorical, occurring somewhere in a line of poetry. the pause may or may not be indicated with a comma.
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