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bildungsroman
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a novel that deals with the development of a young person, usually from adolescence to maturity; frequently called autobiographical; also called an apprenticeship novel
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kunstlerroman
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a form of the apprenticeship novel in which the protagonist is a writer or an artist; the protagonist's struggles from childhood to maturity are against an inhospitable environment and within himself
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leitmotif
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an intentional and recurrent repetition of a word, a phrase or a situation, or an idea
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juxtaposition
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the intentional placement of opposites in close proximity to one another
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epiphany
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a manifestation of showing of some devine being; used to designate an event in which the essential nature of something is suddenly perceived; an intuitive grasp of reality achieved in a flash of recognition in which something, usually simple and commonplace, is seen in a new light
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the stream of consciousness novel
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a type of novel which takes as its subject matter the uninterrupted, uneven, and endless flow of the mind of one or more characters; focuses on pre-speech, nonverbalized level; share the assumption that the significant existence of human beings is found in mental-emotional processes and not in the outside world; share the assumption that the mental-emotional life is disjointed; share the assumption that a pattern of free psychological association rather than logical relationship determines the sequence of thought and feeling
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the sympbolist movement
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a literary movement that sees the immediate, unique, and personal emotional response as the proper subject of art, and its full expression as the ultimate aim of art
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synaesthesia
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the concurrent response of two or more of the senses to the stimulation of one; ex. "blue note"
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