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