ENGL 1080 Study Guide - Final Guide: My Last Duchess, Bildungsroman, Unreliable Narrator
1 Jun 2016
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Scientific romance: an archaic term for the genre of fiction now commonly known as science fiction; originally described both fiction and elements of scientific writing. Dystopia: an imaginary society in fictional writing that represents tendencies of the present social, political, and technological order which projects disastrous future culmination. Frame story (frame narrative): the result of inserting one or more small stories within the body of a larger story that encompasses the smaller ones. The other: an individual perceived by the group as not belonging and being different in some fundamental way (lacking essential characteristics possessed by the group) Elizabeth barrett browning: hiram powers" greek slave . Symbol (conventional and contextual): a word, place, character, or object that means something beyond the literal level (conventional) or a unique symbol created by the author within the context of an individual work or collective works (contextual)
