A Glossary of Literary TermsAs in the first edition, this work is organized as a series of succinct essays in the alphabetical order of the title term, but it now includes new essays, many drastically recast essays, and expanded and updated lists of suggested readings. |
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Page 66
... Figurative Language is a departure from what users of the language appre- hend as the standard meaning of words , or else the standard order of words , in order to achieve some special meaning or effect . Such figures were long ...
... Figurative Language is a departure from what users of the language appre- hend as the standard meaning of words , or else the standard order of words , in order to achieve some special meaning or effect . Such figures were long ...
Page 68
... figurative utterances . ( For the writings on metaphor by Black and Searle , see the list of readings below . ) A mixed metaphor combines two or more diverse metaphoric vehicles . When used inadvertently , without sensitivity to the ...
... figurative utterances . ( For the writings on metaphor by Black and Searle , see the list of readings below . ) A mixed metaphor combines two or more diverse metaphoric vehicles . When used inadvertently , without sensitivity to the ...
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... Figurative language , although extensively dealt with in classical and later traditional rhetorics , had been considered as only one element of style , and often , as subordinated to the overall aim of persuasion . In the present cen ...
... Figurative language , although extensively dealt with in classical and later traditional rhetorics , had been considered as only one element of style , and often , as subordinated to the overall aim of persuasion . In the present cen ...
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aesthetic Alexander Pope allegory American analysis applied artistic ballad called characters comedy comic concepts conventions cultural deconstruction Derrida developed discourse distinction diverse drama effect Elizabethan England English epic essays example feminist French genre Greek human I. A. Richards ideology imitation interpretation irony James John Jonathan Culler language lines linguistic literary criticism literary text literature lyric M. H. Abrams Marxist Marxist criticism meaning medieval metaphor meter Milton mode modern moral myths narrative narrator neoclassic Northrop Frye novel object period philosophical play plot poem poetic poetry poets poststructural prose fiction reader reader-response criticism reading reference Renaissance represented rhetorical rhyme Robert Romantic satire semiotic sense Shakespeare's signify social sonnet speech stanza story stress structuralist structure style T. S. Eliot term theory Thomas tion traditional tragedy utterance verbal verse W. B. Yeats W. H. Auden W. K. Wimsatt William words writers written