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1、AGlossaryofLiteraryTerms Adventurenovel. Anovelwhereexcitingeventsaremoreimportantthancharacterdevelopmentandsometimestheme.Adventurenovelsaresometimesdescribedas"fiction"ratherthan"literature"inordertodistinguishbooksdesignedformereentertainmentratherth
2、anthematicimportance.Examples:·H.RiderHaggard, KingSolomon'sMines·BaronessOrczy, TheScarletPimpernel·AlexandreDumas, TheThreeMusketeers·AlexandreDumas, TheCountofMonteCristoAllegory. Afigurativeworkinwhichasurfacenarrativecarriesasecondary,symbolicormeta
3、phoricalmeaning.In TheFaerieQueene,forexample,RedCrossKnightisaheroicknightintheliteralnarrative,butalsoafigurerepresentingEverymanintheChristianjourney. Manyworkscontainallegoriesorareallegoricalinpart,butnotmanyareentirelyallegorical.Someexamplesofalle
4、goricalworksinclude·EdmundSpenser, TheFaerieQueene·JohnBunyan, ThePilgrim'sProgress·Dante, TheDivineComedy·WilliamGolding, LordoftheFlies(allegoricalnovel)·HermanMelville,MobyDick(allegoricalnovel)·GeorgeOrwell,AnimalFarm(allegoricalnovel)Apologue. Amora
5、lfable,usuallyfeaturingpersonifiedanimalsorinanimateobjectswhichactlikepeopletoallowtheauthortocommentonthehumancondition.Often,theapologuehighlightstheirrationalityofmankind.Thebeastfable,andthefablesofAesopareexamples.SomecriticshavecalledSamuelJohnson
6、's Rasselas anapologueratherthananovelbecauseitismoreconcernedwithmoralphilosophythanwithcharacterorplot.Examples:·GeorgeOrwell, AnimalFarm·RudyardKipling, TheJungleBookAutobiographicalnovel. Anovelbasedontheauthor'slifeexperience.Morecommonthatathorough
7、lyautobiographicalnovelistheincluisionofautobiographicalelementsamongotherelements.Manynovelistsincludeintheirbookspeopleandeventsfromtheirownlives,oftenslightlyorevendramaticallyaltered.Nothingbeatswritingfromexperience,becauseremembranceiseasierthancre
8、ationfromscratchandallthedetailsfittogether.Examplesofautobiographicalnovelsare:·JamesJoyce, PortraitoftheArtistasaYoungMan·ThomasWolfe, LookHomeward,AngelBlankVerse. Unrhymediambicpentameter.Shakespeare'splaysarelargelybl
