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Noun: tremendismo
  1. Post-war Spanish literary style marked by a tendency to emphasize violence and grotesque imagery.
    "Tremendismo is marked by extravagant and strident diction pointed toward the ugly, by sallies of grimly ironic humour, and by the presentation of irrational and alienated characters."

Type of: literary movement

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