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Esoteric Lexicons of Literary Mastery
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  • 1. A French verse form of fifteen syllables
  • 2. Flash-forward or anticipation in narrative structure
  • 3. Understatement using double negatives, subtle inversion
  • 5. Catering to base tastes, sometimes in critique of literature
  • 6. Theory or methodology of text interpretation
  • 9. Philosophical impasse or paradox used in classical rhetoric
  • 11. Narrative style employing letters or correspondence
  • 12. Grammatical voice; active or passive relationship
  • 14. Method of argument involving contradiction and synthesis
  • 15. Rare sudden stiffening, as echoed metaphorically in tragic prose
  • 17. Polite substitution masking harsher or taboo meanings
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  • 4. Figurative or metaphorical use of a word or expression
  • 7. Appearance of being true or real in literary works
  • 8. Manuscript reused by scraping, layers of text intertwined
  • 10. Opposition to accepted or orthodox literary theories
  • 13. Part representing the whole, or vice versa, in rhetoric
  • 16. Witty or pithy maxim used to conclude an argument
  • 18. Inverted word order for poetic or rhetorical effect
  • 19. Figure of speech substituting related attribute for the thing
  • 20. Arrangements of words and phrases to create sentences

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