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          204      Humanities Journal Vol.21, No.1 (January-June 2014)

                 3.  Superpower refers to the power over human destiny, involving
          danger and threat. This could also lead to superhuman ability both physically
          and mentally, such as superhuman strength, vision-based power, superhuman

          senses, and superhuman endurance. In fantasy literature including films, the
          theme of superpower is usually built up in the main character, especially in
          the hero because he normally precedes the plot of the story until the end
          (Etxberia, 2008).

                 4.  Imagination refers to the ability to establish a picture in the

          mind. It can be varied in multiple aspects based on either the truth or the
          supposing phenomena  related to  real life  (e.g., human knowledge,  social
          context  and  religious  practice). Todorov  (1970  cited  in  Scholes,  1975)
          mentioned  that  fantasy  literature  is  the  most  creative  genre  which  is
          simultaneously associated with imagination.

                 5.  Romance (by hero) refers to the superiority of hero/ heroine in

          degree to other men and his environment, and this quality brings him beyond
          realism.

                 Discourse of Fantasy Literature
                 In addition, Todorov (1970, cited in Scholes, 1975) proposed that

          the use of figurative language that implants the fantasy story appears to
          signify the common property of a structure of a fantasy discourse in that
          1)  fantasy  discourse  must  have  a  certain  use  of  figurative  discourse,
          2) fantastic elements and figurative devices are closely related to each other

          and 3) there is equality of close essence between the linguistic device (i.e.,
          the  use  of  figurative  discourse)  and  the  sense  of  fantasy  in  meaning
          construction.
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