Romance
(Continued)
6. Origins and class of
characters sometimes irrelevant, sometimes a mystery.
7. Plot is highly colored,
featuring astonishing events that have symbolic or allegorical import.
8. Tends toward mythic,
allegorical, or symbolic forms; Heightened diction.
9. According to William Gilmore
Simms, the romance
is loftier than the novel and does not confine itself to what is known
or even probable:
"it grasps at the possible."
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