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Vocabulary |
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Elegy (n.) |
A reflective work of literature in response to a death, a lament for the dead |
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Epigraph (n.) |
Quotation usually found at the beginning of a book, or chapter of a book |
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Bildungsroman (n.) |
A novel in which the protagonist grows, learns and matures; a ‘coming of age’ narrative |
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Counter-discourse |
Resistance that takes the form of written or spoken communication |
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Denouement |
The final part of the story, a final resolution or revelation |
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Didactic (adj.) |
Intended to teach, particularly moral values |
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Discourse (ab n.) |
Written and spoken communication; the French philosopher and social theorist Michel Foucault wrote extensively about the relationship between discourse and power |
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Dissident (n.) |
A person who opposes official policy, especially that of an authoritarian state. |
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Dystopia (ab n.) |
Anti-utopia, the opposite of utopia (an imagined ideal); invented futuristic nightmare world based on current social, political, economic and environmental trends and warning against their possible disastrous implications |
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Écriture feminine (ab n.) |
Feminine writing, a term borrowed from French feminist theory about signs of gender in writing; it refers to highly metaphorical, often unpunctuated, flowing writing which represents female body processes and emotional rhythms |
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Ideology (ab n.) |
A set of ideas and beliefs found in a particular culture and in the texts produced by that culture |
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Institutionalised |
Established (typically a practice or activity) as a convention or norm in an organisation or culture |
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Erroneous (adj.) |
Wrong or incorrect |
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Obsequious (adj.) |
Obedient or attentive to an excessive or servile degree |
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Postmodern (ab n.) |
Contemporary writing which self-consciously draws attention to its own rhetorical techniques and narrative artifice, so disrupting conventions of realism, commenting ‘metafictively’ on writing as process, challenging the borderlines between fact and fictions, and problematising the relation between creative writing and critical commentary |
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Propaganda (n.) |
Literature, often polemical, designed to persuade a reader or audience to adopt a given cause |
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Puritan (n.) |
A member of a group of English Protestants of the late 16th and 17th centuries who regarded the Reformation of the Church as not going far enough and sought to simplify and regulate forms of worship |
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Introspection (ab n.) |
The examination of one’s own mental and emotional perspective |
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Repressive (adj.) |
(Especially of a social or political system) inhibiting or restraining personal freedom. |
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Satire (ab n.) |
Literature that explores vice or folly and makes them appear ridiculous; usually morally censorious |
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Theocracy (ab n.) |
A system of government in which priests rule in the name of God or a god. |
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Tyranny (ab n.) |
Cruel and oppressive government or rule. |
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Hegemony (ab n.) |
Leadership or dominance, especially by one state or social group over others. |
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Stream of consciousness (ab n.) |
A literary style in which a character’s thoughts, feelings, and reactions are depicted in a continuous flow uninterrupted by objective description or conventional dialogue. James Joyce, Virginia Woolf are examples |
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Disillusioned (adj.) |
Disappointment in someone or something that one discovers to be less good than one had believed |
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Sardonic (adj.) |
Grimly mocking or cynical |
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Archaic (adj.) |
Old-fashioned or out of common usage |
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Pedantic (adj.) |
Excessively concerned with minor details or rules; over scrupulous |
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Susurration (ab n.) |
The indistinct sound of whispers or rustling |
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Ignominious (adj.) |
Deserving or causing public disgrace or shame |
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Beatitudes (n.) |
Reference to the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew 5:311, a lyrical passage written in tight parallelism. Manipulative propagandists add “Blessed are the silent” |
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Interpolation (n.) |
The insertion of something of a different nature into something else |
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Homage (n.) |
Special honour or respect shown publicly; in history a public display of allegiance |
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Ingratiate (v.) |
Bring oneself into favour with someone by flattering or trying to please them |
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Anachronistic (adj.) |
Historically inaccurate; belonging to another time period other than that being portrayed |
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Feminism (ab n.) |
The advocacy of women’s rights on the ground of the equality of the sexes |
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Approbation (ab n.) |
Approval or praise |
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Transcendent (adj.) |
Beyond or above the range of normal or single human experience |
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Reverie (n.) |
A state of being pleasantly lost in one’s thoughts; a daydream |
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Surreptitiously (adv.) |
Behaving in a way that attempts to avoid notice or attention; secretively |
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