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  2. Exposition (narrative) - Wikipedia

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    Narrative exposition, now often simply exposition, is the insertion of background information within a story or narrative.This information can be about the setting, characters' backstories, prior plot events, historical context, etc. [1] In literature, exposition appears in the form of expository writing embedded within the narrative.

  3. List of literary movements - Wikipedia

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    The decadent movement takes decadence in literature to an extreme, with characters who debase themselves for pleasure, [53] [54] and the use of metaphor, symbolism and language as tools to obfuscate the truth rather than expose it [55] Joris-Karl Huysmans, Gustav Flaubert, Charles Baudelaire, Oscar Wilde: Aestheticism

  4. List of English back-formations - Wikipedia

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    aerate (meaning "expose to air") probably from aeration [1] aesthete from aesthetic [2] aggress from aggression [4] air-condition from air conditioning [2] alley [1] alliterate from alliteration [1] allotrope from allotropy [1] amaze from Middle English amased [1] ambivalent from ambivalence [1] ameliorate perhaps from amelioration in some ...

  5. Rebecca West - Wikipedia

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    Rebecca West was one of the giants and will have a lasting place in English literature. No one in this century wrote more dazzling prose, or had more wit, or looked at the intricacies of human character and the ways of the world more intelligently.

  6. Social novel - Wikipedia

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    Another early example of the social novel is Charles Kingsley's Alton Locke (1849), a work that set out to expose the social injustice suffered by workers in the clothing trade as well as the trials and tribulations of agricultural labourers. It also gives an insight into the Chartist campaign with which Kingsley was involved in the 1840s.

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  8. American literary regionalism - Wikipedia

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    American literary regionalism, often used interchangeably with the term "local color", is a style or genre of writing in the United States that gained popularity in the mid-to-late 19th century and early 20th century.

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