A Reader's Guide to Literary Terms: A DictionaryEdition for 1975 published under title: Literary terms. |
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... style . " In the poetry of Guinicelli , the idea is advanced that the essential quality of the " gentle heart " is ... style " appears later in Spenser's Faerie Queene . DOMESTIC TRAGEDY : A serious play , generally realistic in style ...
... style . " In the poetry of Guinicelli , the idea is advanced that the essential quality of the " gentle heart " is ... style " appears later in Spenser's Faerie Queene . DOMESTIC TRAGEDY : A serious play , generally realistic in style ...
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... style rose , newspapermen removed worn - out expressions and strove for simplicity and directness . Nowadays , the word jour- nalese is often extended to the sort of semaphore style adopted by space - conscious headline writers who ...
... style rose , newspapermen removed worn - out expressions and strove for simplicity and directness . Nowadays , the word jour- nalese is often extended to the sort of semaphore style adopted by space - conscious headline writers who ...
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... style called the trobar clus , in which the complexity of phraseology made the poet's meaning difficult to ascertain . This style was opposed to the trobar clar , or " open " writing . It has been sug- gested that an English analogue ...
... style called the trobar clus , in which the complexity of phraseology made the poet's meaning difficult to ascertain . This style was opposed to the trobar clar , or " open " writing . It has been sug- gested that an English analogue ...
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