Literary Techniques

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• 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
  • 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
• [See also Pathetic Fallacy]
• 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

Related Materials

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

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