didactic (dy-DAK-tik) also didactical (-ti-kal) adjective

   1. Intended to instruct.

   2. Morally instructive.

   3. Inclined to teach or moralize excessively.

   4. didactics, (used with a singular verb) the art or science of teaching.

[Greek didaktikos, skillful in teaching, from didaktos, taught, from
didaskein, didak-, to teach, educate.]

   "Tt might be argued that literature has only very rarely represented
   character. Even the greatest novelists, such as Dostoevsky and Tolstoy,
   resort to stock caricature, didactic speaking over characters, repetitive
   leitmotifs, and so on. The truly unhostaged writer, such as Chekhov, is
   rare."
   James Wood, Human, all too inhuman, New Republic, Jul 24, 2000.

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