adumbrate (en)

report or represent in outline; foreshadow or symbolize

annunciation (en)

an act or instance of announcing; proclamation

apophrades (en)

a term defined by literary critic Harold Bloom as "return of the dead"; the author is encumbered by his previous state of solitude and holds his work open for inspection with that of his predecessors

apophrades (en)

a term defined by literary critic Harold Bloom as "return of the dead"; the author is encumbered by his previous state of solitude and holds his work open for inspection with that of his predecessors

aporetic (en)

skeptical, tending to doubt

aporetic duplication (en)

part of French professor Lucien Dällenbach's three-part theory of mise-en-abyme; a sequence that is supposed to enclose the work that encloses it

cantilever (en)

(noun) ; a projecting beam or member supported at only one end / a bracket-shaped member supporting a balcony or a cornice / either of the two beams or trusses that project from piers toward each other and that when joined directly or by a suspended connecting member form a span of a cantilever bridge

circumscription (en)

the act of circumscribing or something that circumscribes (constrict range of activity, draw a line or boundary around)

contrapuntal (en)

of or in counterpoint

diegetic (en)

the telling of a story by a narrator who summarizes events in the plot and comments on the conversations, thoughts, etc., of the characters

egress (en)

the action of going out of or leaving a place

elision (en)

(linguistics) the omission of a sound or syllable when speaking OR the act or an instance of omitting something

entr'acte (en)

an interval between two acts of a play or opera

heterodiegetic (en)

in film studies and narratology, descriptive of a narrator that does not take part in the plot

imbricated (en)

arranged (scales, sepals, plates, etc.) so that they overlap like roof tiles

logorrhoea (en)

a tendency to extreme loquacity

metaleptic (en)

(from Greek) a figure of speech in which a word or a phrase from figurative speech is used in a new context

mise-en-abyme (fr)

term derived from heraldry; means "placed into abyss"

palimpsest (en)

a manuscript or piece of writing material on which the original writing has been effaced to make room for later writing but of which traces remain

subsumption (en)

an act of subsuming

surfeit (en)

an excessive amount of something