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of, belonging to, or characteristic of a literary genre in which the clever rogue-hero and his escapades or adventures are depicted with broad realism and satire.
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2. Picaresque
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one of three major types, or genres, of literature, the others being prose and drama
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poetry
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is the ordinary form of written language and one of the three major types of literature.
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prose
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a play on words, sometimes on different senses of the same word and sometimes on the similar sense or sound of different words.
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pun
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is the presentation in art of details from actual life
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realism
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a regularly repeated line or group of lines in a poem or song.
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refrain
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the regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem or stanza
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rhyme scheme
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is a story that presents remote or imaginative incidents rather than ordinary, realistic experience.
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romance
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writing that holds up to contempt the faults of individuals or groups
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satire
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a stanza that consists of six lines. In the Italian sonnet,
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sestet
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in a play it is a long speech made by a character who is alone and thus reveals his or her private thoughts and feelings to the audience or reader
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soliloquy
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a narrative technique that presents thoughts as if they were coming directly from the character’s mind.
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stream of conciousness
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a literary movement that stressed the importance of suggestion and evocation of emotional states, especially by means of symbols.
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symbolism
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– the writer’s attitude toward the reader and toward the subject
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tone
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a type of drama or literature that shows the downfall or destruction of a noble or outstanding person,
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tragety
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a short, usually impressionistic and descriptive literary scene that focuses on one moment or give one impression about a character, an idea or a setting
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vignette
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a 19 line poem of fixed form consisting of five tercets and a final quatrain on two rhymes with the first and third lines of the first tercet repeated alternately as a refrain closing the succeeding stanza and joined as the final couplet of the quatrain.
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villianelle
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