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| dramatization |
a version of a story, event, novel, or the like that is made to take the form of a drama. [1/2 definitions] |
| epic |
of a novel, play, film, or the like, having a heroic subject or a grand tone. [2/5 definitions] |
| flashback |
a past event that interrupts the forward action of a play, movie, novel, or the like. [1/2 definitions] |
| Frankenstein |
the title character of Mary W. Shelley's early nineteenth-century novel, who creates a monster that destroys him. [1/3 definitions] |
| Friday |
in the eighteenth-century novel Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe, Crusoe's devoted servant. [1/2 definitions] |
| gimmick |
a novel feature or offer with little purpose other than to attract people to a product. [1/3 definitions] |
| Gothic |
a novel written in the Gothic style. [1/7 definitions] |
| hero |
the primary male character of a play, poem, story, or novel. [1/3 definitions] |
| heroine |
the primary female character in a play, poem, story, or novel. [1/2 definitions] |
| Huckleberry Finn |
the protagonist and title character of a late nineteenth-century novel by Mark Twain. |
| ingenious |
novel or creative in design or execution. [1/2 definitions] |
| Jekyll and Hyde |
in the nineteenth-century novel The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson, the protagonist, who changes from the benevolent Dr. Jekyll into the evil Mr. Hyde. [1/2 definitions] |
| locale |
the scene or setting, as of a story, novel, play, or film. [1/2 definitions] |
| Moby Dick |
the white whale in Herman Melville's mid-nineteenth-century novel of the same name. |
| narrator |
a character or one who acts as a character in a play, novel, or the like and who describes and relates the action through asides, the first person, or the like. [1/3 definitions] |
| neat |
(informal) appealing; charming in a novel way. [1/6 definitions] |
| novelette |
a short novel; novella. |
| novelize |
to convert into the form of a novel, as a film. |
| novella |
a short novel, often witty or satirical in its earlier forms. |
| original |
new or novel. [2/8 definitions] |
| Orson Welles |
U.S. actor, screenwriter, producer, and critically acclaimed motion picture director who first gained national recognition for his role in the 1938 radio broadcast adaptation of H.G. Wells's novel, The War of the Worlds (b.1915--d.1985). |
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