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Archetypes are useful in literature because __________. readers and viewers expect authors to use them they are easily recognized and convey a lot of information readers like everything longer and more complicated they help readers categorize a piece of literature

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Archetypes are useful in literature because they are easily recognized and convey a lot of information. Archetypes are the characters in the story or a situation in the story that are the typical ones and are easily recognized by the readers because they convey a universal pattern. For example: A hero: is the character who is known to display goodness and fight against evil.
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