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A character type deriving his name from the Florentine writer of The Prince (1469-1527), a sinister resourceful and unscrupulous villain
Machiavel
One of the two major epics composed in Sanskrit verse, alongside the Ramayana
Mahabharata
The use of words incorrectly, often polysyllabic ones
Malapropism
The prize for fiction in English open to any writer from the Commonwealth of Republic of Ireland. Winners include Arundhati Roy, Julian Barnes and Kazuo Ishiguro
Man Booker Prize
A public declaration of literary, philosophical or religious beliefs
Manifesto
A well-educated, well-read, civilized and perhaps learned person - who may also be a writer
Man of Letters
An Indian religious chant
Mantra
Refers to the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in verse. In English, this is based on stress rather than quantity
Meter
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A proposition which consists of a pithy, succinct statement (usually a sentence or two)
Maxim
A figure of speech which contains an understatement for emphasis
Meiosis
A form of novel which purports to be a 'true' autobiographical- account but which is wholly or mostly fictitious
Memoir-novel
Any work of fiction which seems preoccupied by its own fictionality or with the nature of fiction generally
Metafiction
A figure of speech in which one thing is described in terms of another
Metaphor
A recently coined term used to denote the body of contemporary writing published at the turn of the 21st c. In Britain, it came into use with the publication of Zadie Smith's White Teeth in 2000
Milennial fiction
The conscious cetration of a myth. In literature, the appropriation and reworking of mythical material, or the creation of a kind of private mythology