iif_kgpm_Dictionary_of_Media

antinarrativeantinarrative [see antinovel]antinomy putting together tworeasonable but opposite premises in aseemingly contradictory fashion so asto achieve some rhetorical effect: forexample, what is bad is really goodfor you; inelegance is in fashionantinovel [also called antinarrative]novel lacking the traditional elementsof the narrative, such as plot structure,realistic characters, etc. Molloy(1951) by Samuel Beckett is anantinovel.antirealism storytelling technique inwhich no attempt is made to representa situation realisticallyantithesis use of words, phrases,clauses, or expressions of opposingmeaning to emphasize contrastingconcepts: for example, He is laughing;I am crying. They are growing;I am shrinking.antitrust laws legislative measuresdesigned to protect trade and commercefrom unlawful control by largecorporations or single entitiesantiwar genre narrative that revolvesaround a plot or a situation thatbrings out the absurdity or depravityof warantonomasia 1. use of a title orhonorific (Your Honor, Your Majesty,etc.) in place of the person’s name; 2.using the name of a well-known personageto describe someone who hassimilar characteristics (for example,calling a philanderer a Don Juan)antonym word that means the oppositeof another word: light is theantonym of dark; hot is the antonymof coldAOL [see America Online]AP [see Associated Press]Apache silence in sociolinguisticanalysis, the use of silence as a formof communication in situations wherewords are difficult to findaphorism [see adage]apocalyptic thriller genre in whichthe story revolves around a cataclysmicevent or disastrous end to life on earthapocryphal of questionable authorshipor authenticityapologue fable intended to imparta moral lesson, in which animals orinanimate objects represent humancharacters: for example, the stories inAesop’s Fables (sixth century b.c.e.)and in the late nineteenth-centuryUncle Remus tales by Americanwriter Joel Chandler Harrisaporia in discourse theory, the stateor expression of doubt or uncertaintyabout how to proceed in a conversationor in a communicative exchangeapostrophe rhetorical strategywhereby an actor (or writer) turns24