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Enlightenment

Focuses on reason, logic, and questioning authority to understand society

Neoclassicism

Emphasizes order, clarity, balance, and moral lessons inspired by classical works

Reason

Encourages critical thinking and logical understanding to challenge ideas

Satire

Uses humor, irony, and exaggeration to criticize society and human behavior

Romanticism

Highlights emotion, imagination, nature, and individualism

Emotion

Focuses on intense personal feelings as a way to understand life

Nature

Serves as inspiration and reflects beauty and spiritual meaning

Imagination

Explores creativity and ideas beyond traditional rules

Sublime

Represents overwhelming feelings of awe, beauty, or terror

Individualism

Promotes personal freedom and self-expression

Realism

Depicts everyday life and ordinary people in a realistic way

Naturalism

Shows how environment, heredity, and society control human behavior

Social Critique

Examines and exposes social issues like inequality and injustice

Detailed Characterization

Presents complex characters with realistic motivations and struggles

Freedom and Independence

Theme about pursuing liberty and self-direction

Morality and Conscience

Focus on choosing what is right based on inner values

Friendship and Loyalty

Emphasizes trust and support between individuals

Pride and Vanity

Highlights arrogance and excessive concern with appearance or status

Politics and Power

Explores conflicts caused by authority and control

Perspective and Relativity

Shows how different viewpoints affect understanding

Character vs Character

Conflict between two individuals

Character vs Self

Internal struggle within a character

Character vs Society

Conflict between a character and societal norms

First Person Point of View

Narration where the story is told using “I” perspective

Moral Lesson

Message about values and behavior learned from the stor