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  2. Literary realism - Wikipedia

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    Literary realism is a literary genre, part of the broader realism in arts, that attempts to represent subject-matter truthfully, avoiding speculative fiction and supernatural elements. It originated with the realist art movement that began with mid- nineteenth-century French literature ( Stendhal ) and Russian literature ( Alexander Pushkin ...

  3. Metaphor and metonymy - Wikipedia

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    [11] In other words, a condensation is when more than one displacement occurs towards the same idea. In 1957, Jacques Lacan, inspired by an article by linguist Roman Jakobson, argued that the unconscious has the same structure of a language, and that condensation and displacement are equivalent to the poetic functions of metaphor and metonymy.

  4. List of literary movements - Wikipedia

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    Literary movements are a way to divide literature into categories of similar philosophical, topical, or aesthetic features, as opposed to divisions by genre or period. Like other categorizations, literary movements provide language for comparing and discussing literary works. These terms are helpful for curricula or anthologies. [1]

  5. List of writing genres - Wikipedia

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    Reference work: publication that one can refer to for confirmed facts, such as a dictionary, thesaurus, encyclopedia, almanac, or atlas. Self-help: a work written with information intended to instruct or guide readers on solving personal problems. Obituary; Travel: literature containing elements of the outdoors, nature, adventure, and traveling.

  6. Realism - Wikipedia

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    Literary realism, a movement from the mid-19th to the early 20th century; Magical realism, a genre of fiction and art that blurs the line between speculation and reality; Neorealism (art) Italian neorealism (film) Indian neorealism (film) New realism, a movement founded in 1960; Realism (art movement), 19th-century painting group

  7. Metonymy - Wikipedia

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    In other words, Isocrates proposes here that metaphor is a distinctive feature of poetic language because it conveys the experience of the world afresh and provides a kind of defamiliarisation in the way the citizens perceive the world. [31] Democritus described metonymy by saying, "Metonymy, that is the fact that words and meaning change."

  8. Category:Literary realism - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Literary realism" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...

  9. Glossary of literary terms - Wikipedia

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    Also apophthegm. A terse, pithy saying, akin to a proverb, maxim, or aphorism. aposiopesis A rhetorical device in which speech is broken off abruptly and the sentence is left unfinished. apostrophe A figure of speech in which a speaker breaks off from addressing the audience (e.g., in a play) and directs speech to a third party such as an opposing litigant or some other individual, sometimes ...