literary devices

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• What Is a Bildungsroman? The German Coming-of-Age Novel
  A bildungsroman is a novel that follows a young protagonist's moral and psychological growth into maturity, a form named after the German word for self-formation.
• What Is the Hero's Journey? Campbell's Monomyth Explained
  The hero's journey, or monomyth, is Joseph Campbell's pattern of departure, trials and return that he found across world myths. Critics dispute its universality.
• What Is an Unreliable Narrator? Definition and Examples
  An unreliable narrator is a storyteller whose account a reader cannot fully trust, because of limited knowledge, bias, or deliberate deception within the story.
• Metaphor
  How one thing is spoken of in terms of another: the mechanics of metaphor, its varieties, and its role in thought and science.