Perpendicularism

Perpendicularism: noun. (In literature) the state of complete non-correspondence in meaning, grammar, metre, or any other literary device. Perpendicularisms are often used by authors for dramatic effect, for example in the story of the Little Red Riding Hood. The backstories of the two main characters, the Little Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Wolf, contain a range of perpendicularisms. While the Little Red Riding Hood lives in a shack built of corrugated metal and comes from a broken family of eight children with a grandmother addicted to crack, the Big Bad Wolf is an only child born to rich wolf aristocracy, whose dead grandparents bequeathed to him two mansions at the edge of the forest. Growing up in these conditions teaches the Little Red Riding Hood complete self-abnegation: she remains a virgin until her death and never has a single taste of marmalade. Meanwhile, the only values the Big Bad Wolf develops are a firm belief in trickle down economics and social Darwinism, his sense of entitlement leading to rampant sexual desires and an odd old-lady fetish.