Thackeray
Wrote satirical fiction
William Makepeace Thackeray was a nineteenth-century English novelist, best known for *Vanity Fair*, a satirical panorama of British society.
His work stands alongside Dickens as defining Victorian fiction, though Thackeray's tone tends more toward irony and social critique than sentiment.
The name occasionally appears as shorthand for that era's literary establishment.
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- narratorOne who tells events
- omniscientUnlimited in awareness
- digressionVeering off topic
- picaresqueRascally adventure narrative style
realism · episodic · subplot · characterization · panoramic · bildungsroman · moralist · storytelling
Meaning opposite to words
- parodySatirical imitation
- witClever, inventive humor
- mockeryScornful ridicule or travesty
- caricatureExaggerated comic depiction
lampoon · cynicism · sardonic · burlesque · skewering · hyperbole · trenchant · acerbity
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- satireMockery exposing vice
- aristocracyRule by hereditary elite
- middle-classIntermediate socioeconomic group
- snobberyPretentious social superiority
hypocrisy · gentility · colonialism · empire · gaslight · carriage · etiquette · industrialization
Surname of Victorian novelist
- BrontëLiterary sisters' surname
- CarlyleScottish Victorian essayist
- nineteenth-centuryThe years 1801-1900
- periodicalRecurring printed publication
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Encoding objects for transmission
- narratorOne who tells events
- omniscientUnlimited in awareness
- digressionVeering off topic
picaresque · realism · episodic · subplot · characterization · panoramic · bildungsroman · moralist · storytelling · illustration
irony
Meaning opposite to words
caricature · lampoon · cynicism · sardonic · burlesque · skewering · hyperbole · trenchant · acerbity · send-up
serialization
Encoding objects for transmission
- satireMockery exposing vice
- aristocracyRule by hereditary elite
- middle-classIntermediate socioeconomic group
snobbery · hypocrisy · gentility · colonialism · empire · gaslight · carriage · etiquette · industrialization · Regency
Dickens
Surname of Victorian novelist
- BrontëLiterary sisters' surname
- CarlyleScottish Victorian essayist
- nineteenth-centuryThe years 1801-1900
Eliot · periodical · three-decker · reviewer
- English LiteratureShakespeare, Dickens, Jane Austen, Bronte, Chaucer
- NovelistsStephen King, Agatha Christie, Mark Twain, Charles Dickens, Jane Austen
- British AuthorsCharles Dickens, William Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Agatha Christie, Roald Dahl
- British WritersShakespeare, Dickens, Austen, Tolkien, Rowling
- Classic AuthorsShakespeare, Dante, Homer, Chaucer, Milton
- 19th century American and English literatureDickens, Twain, Poe, Hawthorne, Melville
ThackerayCharles Dickens
Dickens · Charlotte Brontë · sentimentalist · George Eliot · Harriet Beecher Stowe