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| The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde |
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| a type or class of literature |
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| an extended work of fiction written in prose |
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| a prose fiction of middle length |
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| The plot... in a dramatic or narrative work is constituted by events and actions, as these are rendered and ordered toward achieving particular artistic and emotional effects. |
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| a lack of certainty on the part of a concerned reader about what is going to happen, especially to characters with whom the reader has established a bond of sympathy |
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a narrative that incorporates into it's own narration reference to the process of creating the fictional story itself
writing about writing |
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| pairs of opposed terms that constitute tacit hierarchy, in which the first term functions as privileged and superior and the second term as derivative and inferior |
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| the repressed but continuing presence in the adult's unconscious of the male infant's desire to possess his mother and have his rival, the father, out of the way. |
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| a comparison using like or as |
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| a word or expression that in literal usage denotes one kind of thing is applied to a distinctly different kind of thing, without asserting a comparison. |
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| a narrative in which the agents and actions, and sometimes the setting as well, make coherent sense on the "literal" or primary, level of signification, and at the same time communicate a second, correlated order of communication |
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| ending, literally "unknotting" |
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