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Foreshadowing
Foreshadowing comprises textual elements that hint at or suggest future events without explicit revelation. Foreshadowin
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Foreshadowing and Retrospection
Foreshadowing is a narrative device where earlier events, descriptions, or dialogue hint at later developments, building
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Paper 2, Literary Concepts; Genre: Gothic Convention
Gothic conventions are recurring features in Gothic literature including supernatural or uncanny elements, dark or ruine
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Paper 2, Literary Concepts; Genre: Gothic Convention
A Bildungsroman (or coming-of-age narrative) is a literary form chronicling a protagonist's development from youth to ad
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Paper 2, Literary Concepts; Genre: Gothic Convention
The picaresque novel is a literary form centred on a roguish protagonist (picaro) who experiences episodic adventures, o
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Paper 2, Literary Concepts; Genre: Gothic Convention
Tragedy is a dramatic genre portraying serious action resulting in the downfall or death of the protagonist, often explo
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Paper 2, Literary Concepts; Genre: Gothic Convention
Comedy is a dramatic genre employing humour to critique society, explore human foibles and misunderstandings, and typica
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Paper 2, Literary Concepts; Historical Context: Romantic Period Convention
Romantic conventions, emerging in late 18th/early 19th century, emphasise individual emotion and subjective experience,
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Paper 2, Literary Concepts; Historical Context: Romantic Period Convention
Victorian conventions, emerging in the 19th century, emphasise social realism and detailed representation of society, ex
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Paper 2, Literary Concepts; Historical Context: Romantic Period Convention
Modernist conventions, emerging in early 20th century, emphasise formal experimentation and rejection of conventional na
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Paper 2, Literary Concepts: Narrative Structure
Narrative structure refers to the organisation and arrangement of events within a story. It encompasses plot structure (
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Paper 2, Literary Concepts: Narrative Structure
Characterisation encompasses the techniques writers employ to create, develop, and reveal character. It includes direct
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Paper 2, Literary Concepts: Narrative Structure
Genre comprises categories of literature distinguished by characteristics including form, content, tone, themes, and con
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Paper 2, Literary Concepts: Narrative Structure
Form refers to the structural organisation and external shape of a literary work. In prose, form includes novel length,
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Paper 2, Literary Concepts: Narrative Structure
An allusion is an indirect reference to another text, historical figure, myth, or cultural work. Allusions are not expli
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Paper 2, Literary Concepts: Narrative Structure
Metafiction is narrative that self-reflexively comments on its own fictional status, narrative techniques, or the nature
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Paper 2, Literary Concepts: Narrative Structure
Stream of consciousness is a narrative technique attempting to represent the unstructured, continuous flow of internal m
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Paper 2, Narrative Technique: Point of View
Point of view refers to the narrative perspective from which events are presented. It determines which character's consc
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Paper 2, Narrative Technique: Point of View
Flashbacks shift narrative focus from present time to past events. Flashbacks provide background information, explain ch
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Paper 2, Narrative Technique: Point of View
Pacing refers to the rate at which narrative progresses. Fast pacing employs short sentences, quick scene shifts, minima
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Paper 2, Paper 3; Literary Criticism: Postcolonial Literary Criticism
Postcolonial criticism examines how texts represent, reflect, and challenge colonialism and imperialism, including analy
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Feminist criticism examines how texts represent gender, sexuality, and power; critiques patriarchal ideologies embedded
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Marxist criticism analyses how texts reflect, reproduce, or contest capitalism and class structures; examines literature
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Queer theory and queer literary analysis examine how texts represent sexuality, gender identity, and desire; question he
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Ecocriticism examines how literature represents nature and the environment, analyses human-nature relationships, and cri
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Paper 2, Poetic Study: Verse Form
Verse forms are structured patterns governing poetry's construction. Forms include sonnets (14 lines with specific rhyme
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Paper 2, Poetic Study: Verse Form
Meter is the systematic arrangement of stressed (/) and unstressed (U) syllables creating rhythmic patterns. Common mete
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Paper 2, Poetic Study: Verse Form
Rhyme is the repetition of similar sounds, typically at the end of lines in verse. Rhyme schemes describe patterns (ABAB
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Paper 2, Poetic Study: Verse Form
Enjambment occurs when a grammatical phrase or clause continues across a line break without terminal punctuation. Enjamb
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Paper 2, Poetic Study: Verse Form
Stanzas are repeated groupings of lines in poetry forming structural units. Stanzas can be regular (identical structure
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Paper 2, Poetic Study: Verse Form
Free verse is poetry that abandons regular meter, rhyme scheme, and traditional form. It uses line breaks, repetition, i
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Paper 2, Poetic Study: Verse Form
Line breaks mark the end of individual lines in poetry. They create visual units and affect reading rhythm. Strategic li
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Paper 2, Section B: Narrative Voice
Narrative voice is the presence and perspective of a narrator conveyed through linguistic choices including pronoun use,
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Paper 2, Section B: Narrative Voice
Prose fiction comprises extended fictional narratives written in prose (continuous written text, not verse). Major works
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Intertextuality refers to the connections, references, allusions, and echoes between texts. Texts engage with literary t
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Poetry
Poetry comprises diverse verse forms and free verse employing concentrated language, figurative devices, and musical qua
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