enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Mood (literature) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mood_(literature)

    In literature, mood is the atmosphere of the narrative. Mood is created by means of setting (locale and surroundings in which the narrative takes place), attitude (of the narrator and of the characters in the narrative), and descriptions. Though atmosphere and setting are connected, they may be considered separately to a degree.

  3. List of metafictional works - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_metafictional_works

    This is a partial list of works that use metafictional ideas. Metafiction is intentional allusion or reference to a work's fictional nature. It is commonly used for humorous or parodic effect, and has appeared in a wide range of mediums, including writing, film, theatre, and video gaming.

  4. Hitchcockian - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitchcockian

    Elements considered Hitchcockian include: Climactic plot twist. The cool platinum blonde. [1]The presence of a domineering mother in someone's life. [2]An innocent man accused.

  5. List of apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_apocalyptic_and...

    Apocalyptic fiction is a subgenre of science fiction that is concerned with the end of civilization due to a potentially existential catastrophe such as nuclear warfare, pandemic, extraterrestrial attack, impact event, cybernetic revolt, technological singularity, dysgenics, supernatural phenomena, divine judgment, climate change, resource depletion or some other general disaster.

  6. Storytelling - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storytelling

    In the Lakota Tribe of North America, for example, young girls are often told the story of the White Buffalo Calf Woman, who is a spiritual figure that protects young girls from the whims of men. In the Odawa Tribe , young boys are often told the story of a young man who never took care of his body, and as a result, his feet fail to run when he ...

  7. Category:English-language biographical drama films - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:English-language...

    The Anna Nicole Smith Story; The Anna Nicole Story; Anna Pavlova (film) Anne of the Thousand Days; Antwone Fisher (film) Apaye; The Apprentice (2024 film) Argo (2012 film) The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford; At Eternity's Gate (film) At the End of the Day: The Sue Rodriguez Story; The Athlete (2009 film) The Audrey ...

  8. Tone (literature) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tone_(literature)

    The mood of a piece of literature is the feeling or atmosphere created by the work, or, said slightly differently, how the work makes the reader feel. Mood is produced most effectively through the use of setting, theme, voice and tone, while tone is how the author feels about something.

  9. List of coming-of-age stories - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_coming-of-age_stories

    Flowers for Algernon, short story and novel by Daniel Keyes (short story 1959, novel 1966) To Kill a Mockingbird, novel by Harper Lee (1960) Where the Red Fern Grows, by Wilson Rawls (1961) A Clockwork Orange, a novel by Anthony Burgess (1962) The Learning Tree, novel by Gordon Parks (1963) The Graduate, novel by Charles Webb (1963)