Literary Techniques (original) (raw)

• Allusion
• Introduction: Four Forms (with examples from Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
• Biblical allusions: types
  
• Epiphanies
• Pathetic Fallacy
• Rhetoric: Organization and Arument
• Tropes: simile, metaphor, pun, and other techniques
• How to Begin? Sample Opening Paragraphs
• Sage-Writing Techniques
• Characterization
• Introduction
• Aristotle on characterization
• The family-systems approach
• Plot and Narrative Structure
• Introduction
• Narrative "Annexes" in Victorian Fiction
• The Flashback
• Narrative Bonds: Multiple Narrators in the Victorian Novel [Review]
• Point of view
• Point of view and Narrative Distance
• Victorian and Modern Endings
• The Protagonist
• Carl Jung's Theory of the Effective Protagonist
• Aristotle on characterization
• Setting and Description
• Introduction
• Word Painting
  • George Eliot
  • Examples from Ann Radcliffe
  • Examples from John Ruskin
  • Being There: The Role of Word-Painting in Ruskin's Art Criticism
  • Word-Painting As Interpretation in Ruskin's Art Criticism
• Image, Symbol, and Motif
• The Tropes
• Biblical Types and Literary Symbolism
• Theme versus Subject

Style

• "A Matter of Style: A Review of Matthew Sussman's Stylistic Virtue and Victorian Fiction: Form, Ethics and the Novel

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• Literary Modes and Genres
• Allegory
• The Grotesque
• Realism
• Satire
• Suspense

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