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  2. Grandiosity - Wikipedia

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    In psychology, grandiosity is a sense of superiority, uniqueness, or invulnerability that is unrealistic and not based on personal capability.It may be expressed by exaggerated beliefs regarding one's abilities, the belief that few other people have anything in common with oneself, and that one can only be understood by a few, very special people. [1]

  3. Delusions of grandeur - Wikipedia

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    Delusions of grandeur, also known as grandiose delusions (GDs) or expansive delusions, [1] are a subtype of delusion characterized by the extraordinary belief that one is famous, omnipotent, wealthy, or otherwise very powerful or of a high status. Grandiose delusions often have a religious, science fictional, or supernatural theme

  4. Epic (genre) - Wikipedia

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    J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings is an example of epic fantasy, [20] though the genre is not limited to the Western tradition, for example: Arabic epic literature includes One Thousand and One Nights; [21] and Indian epic poetry includes Ramayana and Mahabharata. [21]

  5. List of epic poems - Wikipedia

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    Don Juan by Lord Byron (1824), an example of a "mock" epic in that it parodies the epic style of the author's predecessors [12] Camões by Almeida Garrett (1825), narrating the last years and deeds of Luís de Camões; Dona Branca by Almeida Garrett (1826), the fantastic tale of the forbidden love between Portuguese princess Branca and Moorish ...

  6. Objectivism (poetry) - Wikipedia

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    For example, it was a letter from the Revival poet Andrew Crozier which prompted Rakosi's return to poetry. Amidst the continuous reappraisals, critical and otherwise, of the legacy and literary formation of the Objectivists, a well known mapping of the territory continues to be one put forth by poet Ron Silliman: "three-phase Objectivism ...

  7. Heroic couplet - Wikipedia

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    A heroic couplet is a traditional form for English poetry, commonly used in epic and narrative poetry, and consisting of a rhyming pair of lines in iambic pentameter.Use of the heroic couplet was pioneered by Geoffrey Chaucer in the Legend of Good Women and the Canterbury Tales, [1] and generally considered to have been perfected by John Dryden and Alexander Pope in the Restoration Age and ...

  8. Milo Minderbinder - Wikipedia

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    For example, he secretly replaces the CO 2 cartridges in the emergency life vests with printed notes to the effect that what is good for M&M is good for the country. Eventually, Minderbinder begins contracting missions for the Germans , fighting on both sides in the battle at Orvieto , and bombing his own squadron at Pianosa .

  9. Hyperbole - Wikipedia

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    Hyperbole has been used throughout literature for many centuries. Heroic drama, which is drama with an emphasis on grandeur and excess, often makes use of hyperbole to extend the effect and epic nature of the genre. Modern tall tales also make use of hyperbole to exaggerate the feats and characteristics of their protagonists.