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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... metaphor instead of a simile . Here is a more complex metaphor from the contemporary poet Stephen Spender , in which he describes the eye as it per- ceives a landscape : Eye , gazelle , delicate wanderer , Drinker of horizon's fluid ...
... metaphor instead of a simile . Here is a more complex metaphor from the contemporary poet Stephen Spender , in which he describes the eye as it per- ceives a landscape : Eye , gazelle , delicate wanderer , Drinker of horizon's fluid ...
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... metaphor is the product of an " interaction " between the meanings of the vehicle and the tenor of a metaphor . In an influential essay , the philosopher Max Black refined and expanded this notion of interaction by specifying that the ...
... metaphor is the product of an " interaction " between the meanings of the vehicle and the tenor of a metaphor . In an influential essay , the philosopher Max Black refined and expanded this notion of interaction by specifying that the ...
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... metaphor , discussed above , are Max Black , " Metaphor , " in Models and Metaphor ( 1962 ) , and " More About Metaphor , " in Metaphor and Thought , ed . Edward Ortney ( 1979 ) ; and John R. Searle , Expression and Meaning ( 1979 ) ...
... metaphor , discussed above , are Max Black , " Metaphor , " in Models and Metaphor ( 1962 ) , and " More About Metaphor , " in Metaphor and Thought , ed . Edward Ortney ( 1979 ) ; and John R. Searle , Expression and Meaning ( 1979 ) ...
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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