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A form of literary biography which consists of a person's sayings, opinions, obiter dicta, apercus, etc. These are recorded by the person to whom they are addressed.
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Table-talk
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A story which is extravagant, outlandish or highly improbable
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Tall story
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A line of four metrical feet. In English verse usually iambic or trochaic, especially enjoyed by the likes of Milton, Scott and Byron
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Tetrameter
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The central idea of a work, such as jealousy in Othello
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Theme
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A novel which treats a social, political or relgious problem didactically, with an aim the call people's attention to the shortcomings of a society: Dickens's Hard Times (1854), The Grapes of Wrath (1939), Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)
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Thesis Novel
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A tense, exciting, tautly plotted and sometimes sensational type of novel. Guns, sex and violence often play a part in this genre
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Thriller
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Novels which employ the stream of consciousness technique in which the use of time, and time as a theme is of pre-eminent importance: Proust's In Search of Lost Time and Joyce's Ulysses
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Time Novel
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A sentence (composed of subject and predicate) in which the predicate merely repeats the content of the subject: 'The man is a man'; 'The child is young'; 'The great is stellar';
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Tautology
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The separation of the parts of a word by the insertion of another word or words. Not unusual in abusive speech. For example: 'Neverthebloodyless, I won't accept that'
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Tmesis
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A narrative, barely distinguishable from a short story which can be written or spoken
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Tale
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A newspaper whose pages are half the size of a broadsheet
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Tabloid
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A defect in a tragic hero or heroine which leads to their downfall
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Tragic Flaw
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A figurative device, expression or epithet which belittles by exaggeration
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Tapinosis
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A New England movement which placed value on intuition in matters of moral guidance and inspiration
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Transcendentalism
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A metrical foot containing a stressed followed by an unstressed syllable: / u. The reverse of an iamb
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Trochee
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