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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.
2. Picaresque
one of three major types, or genres, of literature, the others being prose and drama
poetry
is the ordinary form of written language and one of the three major types of literature.
prose
a play on words, sometimes on different senses of the same word and sometimes on the similar sense or sound of different words.
pun
is the presentation in art of details from actual life
realism
a regularly repeated line or group of lines in a poem or song.
refrain
the regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem or stanza
rhyme scheme
is a story that presents remote or imaginative incidents rather than ordinary, realistic experience.
romance
writing that holds up to contempt the faults of individuals or groups
satire
a stanza that consists of six lines. In the Italian sonnet,
sestet
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
soliloquy
a narrative technique that presents thoughts as if they were coming directly from the character’s mind.
stream of conciousness
a literary movement that stressed the importance of suggestion and evocation of emotional states, especially by means of symbols.
symbolism
– the writer’s attitude toward the reader and toward the subject
tone
a type of drama or literature that shows the downfall or destruction of a noble or outstanding person,
tragety
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
vignette
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.
villianelle