English Terminology 8/22/07

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psychological novel

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a work of fiction in which the thoughts, feelings, and motivations of the character are of equal or greater interest than is the external action of the narrative

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dialogism

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the concept used by the Russian philosopher Mikhail Bakhtin that explains works of literature that inform and are informed by other works

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novel

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a fictious prose narrative of considerable length and complexity, portraying characters and usually presenting a sequential organization of action and scenes

also means strikingly new, unusual, different

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point of view

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the position of the narrator in relation to the story, as indicated by the narrator's outlook from which the events are depicted and by the attitude toward the characters

a specified or stated manner of consideration or appraisal; standpoint

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setting

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the locale or period in which the action of a novel, play, film, etc., takes place

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character

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an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction

The combination of qualities or features that distinguishes one person, group, or thing from another

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theme

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a unifying or dominant idea, motif, etc, as in a work of art

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doppelganger

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a ghostly double or counterpart of a living thing

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foil

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to set off by contrast