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almost synonymous with hero or heroine, who may be locked in a struggle with the antagonist.
chief character in the novel, where two figures are engaged in a struggle with each other.
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roundabout ways of approaching or hinting at a subject rather than addressing it directly, either for comic or ironic effect, or to avoid embarrassing topics.
Caricature - a grotesque or ludicrous rendering of a
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wholly or chiefly from the point of view of one individual, though the narrative is still third-person.
Omniscient narrator - the narrator of a story who
knows in a godlike way every detail of the characters lives, motives, intentions, desires, thoughts, actions
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work, of lesser significance than a theme. Dancing, walking, reading, letter-writing, clothes and food all serve as motifs in Pride and Prejudice. Characters are distinguished from each other by their attitudes to such interests or activities.
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hint at or imply the kind of reader at which it is aimed. These features may be to do with subject matter, tone of voice, assumptions as to shared interests, knowledge
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Irony - saying one thing while you mean another Parody - an imitation of a specific work of literature, or
literary style or genre, devised so as to ridicule its characteristic features. A good example is Mr Collinss letter.
Satire - literature which exhibits or examines vice and
future events.
Epistolary novel - a novel in which the story is told
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