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Literature, Art, Drama & Film making

Synecdoche, Metonymy

sarcasm: sự mỉa mai; a way of using words that are the opposite of what you mean in order to be unpleasant to somebody or to make fun of them
sarcastic

A soliloquy (độc thoại), from Latin solo "to oneself" + loquor "I talk", plural soliloquies) is a monologue addressed to oneself, thoughts spoken out loud without addressing another person.

Satire is a genre of the visual, literary, and performing arts, usually in the form of fiction and less frequently non-fiction, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, often with the intent of exposing or shaming the perceived flaws of individuals, corporations, government, or society itself into improvement.
satirist; narcissism; statistic

Rhetoric (tu từ) is the art of persuasion. It is one of the three ancient arts of discourse (trivium) along with grammar and logic/dialectic. As an academic discipline within the humanities, rhetoric aims to study the techniques that speakers or writers use to inform, persuade, and motivate their audiences.

As a literary device or artistic form, an allegory (nói bóng) is a narrative or visual representation in which a character, place, or event can be interpreted to represent a meaning with moral or political significance.
allegorical concepts

A cameo appearance (vai diễn khách mời), also called a cameo role and often shortened to just cameo (/ˈkæmioʊ/), is a brief guest appearance of a well-known person or character in a work of the performing arts. These roles are generally small, many of them non-speaking ones, and are commonly either appearances in a work in which they hold some special significance (such as actors from an original movie appearing in its remake) or renowned people making uncredited appearances.

melodrama: kịch tâm lý tình cảm

discourse: (formal) a long and serious treatment or discussion of a subject in speech or writing

Anthropomorphism (nhân hóa) is the attribution of human traits, emotions, or intentions to non-human entities. Anthropomorphism; anthropomorphic
Anthropology

In social psychology, a stereotype is a generalized belief about a particular category of people. It is an expectation that people might have about every person of a particular group.

Sagas are prose stories and histories, composed in Iceland and to a lesser extent elsewhere in Scandinavia.

prose: văn xuôi; writing that is not poetry

protagonist: (formal) the main character in a play, film or book
antagonist: (formal) a person who strongly opposes somebody/something

prequel: tiền truyện, phần trước, a book or a film about events that happened before those in a popular book or film that has already appeared
sequel: sequel (to something) a book, film, play, etc. that continues the story of an earlier one

anthology: tuyển tập văn học, a collection of poems, stories, etc. that have been written by different people and published together in a book

liminality, liminal space subliminal, sublimity

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liminality https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liminal_space_(aesthetic) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limen

Pantomime is a type of musical comedy stage production designed for family entertainment. It was developed in England and is performed throughout the United Kingdom, Ireland and (to a lesser extent) in other English-speaking countries, especially during the Christmas and New Year season.

Rags to riches (also rags-to-riches) refers to any situation in which a person rises from poverty to wealth, and in some cases from absolute obscurity to heights of fame, fortune and celebrity—sometimes instantly. This is a common archetype in literature and popular culture, such as the writings of Horatio Alger, Jr.

A screenplay (kịch bản phim), or script, is a written work produced for a film, television show, or video game (as opposed to a stage play) by screenwriters. A screenplay written for television is also known as a teleplay.