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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... Verse consists of lines of iambic pentameter ( five - stress iambic verse ) which are unrhymed - hence the term " blank . " Of all English verse forms it is closest to the natural rhythms of English speech , yet flexible and adaptive to ...
... Verse consists of lines of iambic pentameter ( five - stress iambic verse ) which are unrhymed - hence the term " blank . " Of all English verse forms it is closest to the natural rhythms of English speech , yet flexible and adaptive to ...
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... verse . Nursery rhymes and other children's verses are another type of light verse . Edward Lear ( " The Jumblies , " " The Owl and the Pussy Cat " ) and Lewis Carroll ( " Jabberwocky , " The Hunting of the Snark ) made children's nonsense ...
... verse . Nursery rhymes and other children's verses are another type of light verse . Edward Lear ( " The Jumblies , " " The Owl and the Pussy Cat " ) and Lewis Carroll ( " Jabberwocky , " The Hunting of the Snark ) made children's nonsense ...
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... Verse in Classical Meters ( 1974 ) . 3 ) In free verse ( discussed in a separate essay ) , the component lines have no ( or at least only occasional ) metric feet , or uniform stress - patterns . George Saintsbury , Historical Manual of ...
... Verse in Classical Meters ( 1974 ) . 3 ) In free verse ( discussed in a separate essay ) , the component lines have no ( or at least only occasional ) metric feet , or uniform stress - patterns . George Saintsbury , Historical Manual of ...
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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