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  2. Varieties of criticism - Wikipedia

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    It includes discussion of the work’s content along with critic's insights gained from research. This may have a positive or a negative bias and may be a study of an individual piece of literature or an author’s body of work. [7] Literary criticism is not limited to plot summaries, biographies of authors, or finding faults with the literature.

  3. Good and evil - Wikipedia

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    The modern English word evil (Old English yfel) and its cognates such as the German Übel and Dutch euvel are widely considered to come from a Proto-Germanic reconstructed form of *ubilaz, comparable to the Hittite huwapp-ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European form *wap-and suffixed zero-grade form *up-elo-.

  4. Antagonist - Wikipedia

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    The antagonist is commonly positioned against the protagonist and their world order. [4] While narratives often portray the protagonist as a hero and the antagonist as a villain, like Harry Potter and Lord Voldemort in Harry Potter, the antagonist does not always appear as the villain.

  5. De finibus bonorum et malorum - Wikipedia

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    De Finibus, English translation by Harris Rackham, LacusCurtius; Side by Side Latin and English, transl. by Harris Rackham, Google Books; On the Ends of Good and Evil, english translation by Harris Rackham public domain audiobook at LibriVox

  6. Dark Romanticism - Wikipedia

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    From 1840 to the late 1870s, Dark Romanticism dominated literature and art. The primary element employed was symbolism. They would symbolize man's bad side and "study human nature's difficulties." Artists sought to show how evil, rather than virtue, consumes people, and how individual acts lead to self-destruction. [7]

  7. Litotes - Wikipedia

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    Cicero uses the word to mean simplicity (or frugality) of life. The meaning and the function of the word changed from 'simple' to the idea of understatement that involves double negatives, a way to state things simply. Old Norse had several types of litotes. These points are denied negatives ("She's not a terrible wife" meaning "she's a good ...

  8. Poetic justice - Wikipedia

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    Poetic justice, also called poetic irony, is a literary device with which ultimately virtue is rewarded and misdeeds are punished. In modern literature, [ 1 ] it is often accompanied by an ironic twist of fate related to the character's own action, hence the name "poetic irony".

  9. Opposite - Wikipedia

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    Opposition is a semantic relation in which one word has a sense or meaning that negates or, in terms of a scale, is distant from a related word.Some words lack a lexical opposite due to an accidental gap in the language's lexicon.