DystopiaAn imagined world or society in which people live in fear or misery
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An imagined place or state in which everything is unpleasant or bad, typically a totalitarian or environmentally degraded one
MetafictionFiction which self-consciously reflects upon itself
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Fiction in which the author self-consciously alludes to the artificiality or literariness of a work by parodying or departing from novelistic conventions and traditional narrative techniques
PostmodernismA late 20th-century style and concept in the arts and architecture
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A style or concept in the arts characterized by distrust of theories and ideologies and by the drawing of attention to conventions
IronyThe expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite
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The expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect