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."