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PoliticalWhere the action centres around a real or invented political scenario, usually nationally or internationally, perhaps taking place in a parliament, or during a political campaign. | |
Psychological thrillerWhere a mood of high tension and excitement is created mainly as the result of psychological drama and dilemma. | |
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RomanceIn its broader, historical sense, ‘romance’ refers to novels where the stories are exaggerated or remote from everyday life. Now it is often more taken to refer to a novel where the fiction centres on one or more love stories. | |
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Science fictionWhere an alternative reality is created, usually in outer space, or on another planet, often involving a high degree of scientific or technical data about that ‘other world’. | |
SettingThe environment and atmosphere in which characters operate. | |
Short storyA length of prose up to approximately 20,000 words in length, most usually of between 1,000 and 5,000 words. | |
SimileA comparison usually using ‘like’ or ‘as’, e.g. ‘ The clouds were like cotton wool’. | |
StoryA narrative of events arranged in their time-sequence. | |
SyntaxThe grammatical structure in sentences. | |