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Related to postmodern intertextuality, pastiche means to combine, or "paste" together, multiple elements. In Postmodernist literature this can be an homage to or a parody of past styles. It can be ...

деус екс махина

Literature; General

Resolving the primary conflict by a means unrelated to the story (e.g., a god appears and solves everything).

поетическа справедливост

Literature; General

Poetic justice is a literary device in which virtue is ultimately rewarded or vice punished, often in modern literature by an ironic twist of fate intimately related to the character's own conduct.

анафора

Literature; General

В лингвистиката anaphora е екземпляр на израз, отнасящи се до друго.

метафора

Literature; General

Metaphor is the concept of understanding one thing in terms of another. A metaphor is a figure of speech that constructs an analogy between two things or ideas; the analogy is conveyed by the use of ...

метонимия

Literature; General

Metonymy is a figure of speech used in rhetoric in which a thing or concept is not called by its own name, but by the name of something intimately associated with that thing or concept. For instance, ...

синекдоха

Literature; General

Synecdoche; from Greek synekdoche (συνεκδοχή), meaning "simultaneous understanding") is a figure of speech in which a term is used in one of the following ways: Part of something is used to refer to ...