A Reader's Guide to Literary Terms: A DictionaryEdition for 1975 published under title: Literary terms. |
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... Romantic individualism and realistic naturalism , such men as Irving Babbitt , Paul Elmer More , and Norman Foerster advo- cated a concern with " human " values . They insisted that man stood apart from nature and possessed free will ...
... Romantic individualism and realistic naturalism , such men as Irving Babbitt , Paul Elmer More , and Norman Foerster advo- cated a concern with " human " values . They insisted that man stood apart from nature and possessed free will ...
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... ROMANTIC COMEDY : A play in which love is the central motive of an action which leads to a happy ending . Though the term is frequently applied to such Elizabethan plays as Shakespeare's As You Like It , it may with equal justification ...
... ROMANTIC COMEDY : A play in which love is the central motive of an action which leads to a happy ending . Though the term is frequently applied to such Elizabethan plays as Shakespeare's As You Like It , it may with equal justification ...
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... Romantic admiration for the primitive and for the child , but the Romantic faith in the emotions . If man is inherently sinful , reason must restrain his passions ; but if he is naturally good , then his emotions can be trusted . They ...
... Romantic admiration for the primitive and for the child , but the Romantic faith in the emotions . If man is inherently sinful , reason must restrain his passions ; but if he is naturally good , then his emotions can be trusted . They ...
Common terms and phrases
ACATALECTIC ACCENT achieve action actors aesthetic anapest ancient ballad beast epic called characters Classical comedy consisting contains couplet critics describe designed developed device drama eighteenth century elements Elizabethan emotion England English epic essay example expression figure of speech French genre Greek Hamlet hero Hotchkiss humor I. A. Richards iamb iambic idea imitation irony language Latin literary literature lyric meaning medieval metaphor meter metrical foot Milton MIRACLE PLAY modern moral narrative nature notable novel Oedipus original Oscar Wilde pastoral pattern Petrarchan sonnet play playwright plot poem poetic poetry poets popular prose qq.v quatrain reader refers refrain Renaissance rhetorical rhyme scheme rhythm Romantic satirical scene Shakespeare's short sometimes song sonnet sprung rhythm stanza stock character story stress style symbols synonym T. S. Eliot tercet term theater theatrical Thomas tion tragedy trochee unstressed syllables usually Villanelle W. B. Yeats word writers Yeats