contrivance, premise, trope, shtick, narrative, plotline, subversiveness, artifice, wryness, staginess, phantasmagoria, pompousness, knowingness, delusion, metafiction, sophistries, sentimentalism, clownishness, silliness, pomposity, absurdism, sensibility, misanthropy, literalness, subtext, hackwork, whimsicality, solipsism, absurdity, doubleness, conventionality, insubstantiality, pretension, grand guignol, loathsomeness, incuriosity, pretentiousness, daftness, idiosyncrasy, banality, glibness, affectation, triteness, historicism, inanity, grotesquerie, slyness, ruefulness, implausibility, archness, didacticism, pastiche, reductionism, fatuousness, anouilh, facetiousness, illogic, roundelay, schtick, attitudinizing, sunniness, smarminess, earnestness, cleverness, profundity, shavian, cliches, drollery, allegory, poeticism, fable, unnaturalness, auteurism, whimsy, grandiloquence, literalism, grotesquery, notion, imposture, priggishness, nabokovian, woodenness, inarticulateness, callowness, corniness, archetypes, syllogisms, moralizing, archaism, dumbness, obtuseness, lunkheaded, boyishness, monologuing, ponderousness, metaphor, egocentricity, protagonists, worldview, mundanity, characters, artlessness, conceits, vanity, egotism, superstition, credulity, fancy, superstitions, fancies, arrogance, bravado, fantasy, playthings, boasting, enthusiasm, extravagance, pretense, arrogant, astonishingly, e'er, eagle, evill, fortune, hers, impertinent, insolent, prideful, sacrilegious, singularly, stark, surfeited, unaware, unnaturally, untamable, withal, wolf, abased

boastfulness, posturing, self-importance, swelled head, vainglory

arrogator, boastfulness, modesty, nebulous, vainglory

pride, pridefulness

amour propre, self-love