| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Descript |
136 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. |
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text txt rdacontent |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Audience |
850L Lexile |
| Note |
Accelerated Reader UG 5.5 3 3 160449 |
| Bibliog. |
Includes glossary. |
| Contents |
Story -- Plot -- Metafiction -- The lenses of psychic distance -- Immediacy -- Irony -- Red herring -- Suspension of disbelief -- Names -- Leitmotif -- Avant-Garde -- Cause and effect -- Stream of consciousness -- Legend -- Vocabulary and syntax -- Showing and telling -- Dialogue -- Interior monologue -- Setting -- Sentimentality -- Title -- Mechanics -- Transitions -- Foreshadowing -- Insertion -- Allegory -- Epigram -- fairy Tale -- Farce -- F__K -- Intertextuality -- Keyboard digression -- Picaro -- Sex in the story -- Revision -- Translation -- Style -- Premise -- Flashback -- Coincidence -- Formula -- Cliché -- Sentence diagram -- Hero (not) -- Description -- Repetition -- Prologue -- Unreliable narrators -- Simile, Metaphor, and Conceit -- Frame story -- Detail -- Dialect, Ain't it? -- Epistolary novel -- Diction -- Symbolism -- Point of view -- Beginning -- Suspense -- Stereotype -- Exposition -- Research -- Deus ex machina -- Character -- Pathetic fallacy -- Bildungsroman -- Denouement -- Fable -- Parable -- Myth -- Mise-en-Sĉènr -- Roman à Clef -- Ambiguity -- Verisimilitude -- Catharsis -- Allusion -- Archetype -- Oxymoron -- Structure -- Tale -- Short short story -- Character -- Character presentation (indirect method) -- Character presentation (direct method) -- Narrator -- Subplot -- Grotesque -- Science fiction -- Humors -- Tragedy -- Epilogue -- Tour de Force -- Introduction, preface, foreword -- Appendix. |
| Summary |
Depicts three not-so-helpless blind mice who demystify useful literary elements, sharing lighthearted language secrets and absurdist rules that include coverage of the differences between bildungsroman, epigram, and epistolary. |
| Subject |
Literature -- Terminology.
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Authorship.
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English language -- Terms and phrases.
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Literature -- Terminology.
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Authorship.
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| Genre |
Young adult non-fic.
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| Add Author |
Swarte, Joost, 1947-
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| Note |
Title on jacket cover: once, twice, thrice told tales |
| Alt Title |
Three mice full of writing advice |
| ISBN |
9781416957843 |
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