by
Jerome Stern
declension
(en)
(noun) a falling off or away; deterioration / (noun) descent slope
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E. M. Forster’s classic Aspects of the Novel (1927) talks about this dimensional declension of characters from flat to round.
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E. M. Forster’s classic Aspects of the Novel (1927) talks about this dimensional declension of characters from flat to round.
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tendentious
(en)
(adjective) marked by a tendency in favor of a particular point of view; biased
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Without sufficient eloquence, it’s a strategy likely to misfire into tendentiousness.
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Without sufficient eloquence, it’s a strategy likely to misfire into tendentiousness.
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portentous
(en)
(adjective) of, relating to, or constituting a portent / (adjective) eliciting amazement or wonder; prodigious / (adjective) being a grave or serious matter / (adjective) self-consciously solemn or important; pompous / (adjective) ponderously excessive
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Anything revelatory or portentous at the end of the story is very heavy indeed.
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Anything revelatory or portentous at the end of the story is very heavy indeed.
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epigraph
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a short quotation or saying at the beginning of a book or chapter, intended to suggest its theme
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Don’t confuse epigram with epigraph, which refers to those quotations some writers like to put in the front matter of their novels and stories.
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Don’t confuse epigram with epigraph, which refers to those quotations some writers like to put in the front matter of their novels and stories.
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picaresque
(en)
(adjective) of or relating to rogues or rascals / (adjective) of, relating to, suggesting, or being a type of fiction dealing with the episodic adventures of a usually roguish protagonist / (noun) one that is picaresque
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The anonymous Spanish work Lazarillo de Tormes (1554), the first picaresque novel, began an enthusiasm that spread to other countries, but the masterpiece of the form is Cervantes’ Don Quixote.
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The anonymous Spanish work Lazarillo de Tormes (1554), the first picaresque novel, began an enthusiasm that spread to other countries, but the masterpiece of the form is Cervantes’ Don Quixote.
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