21st Reviewer

are used to treat serious subjects, topics and themes in a playful and humorous way.

• irony,playfullness and black humor

• intertextuality

• metafiction

• temporal distortion

is the relationship between one text and another or one text within literary history and can be a reference to another literary work, an extended discussion of a work, or the adoption of a style.

Answer explanation

is about a character who is writing another literary piece –usually done for emotional distance and to comment on the act of storytelling.

what challenges the normal structure of a literary piece?

concerns about works that fictionalize real historical events

is when the time setting of a story may overlap, repeat, or break into multiple possibilities.

uses themes and subjects that are often imaginary and fantastic and with a certain dream-like quality but are treated as real and factual.

refer to how people have become flooded with information, and how technology has become central focus in many lives so much that the understanding of real or true is doubted.

is the fear that every chaos happening in the world is intentional or caused.

who is the author of The circles?