A Handbook to LiteratureEntries define, explain, and illustrate terms and concepts from film, theater, printing, linguistics, criticism, theory, and literary history. |
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accented action applied APPRENTICESHIP NOVEL Ballad Bible born called Carmen Figuratum character classical comedy COMEDY OF MANNERS couplet Criticism Death developed Died drama early edition eighteenth century elements Elizabethan England English literature epic Essay example Ezra Pound fiction film French George Gerard Manley Hopkins Gothic Novel Greek Henry heroic human I. A. Richards iambic James John Johnson language Latin lines LITERARY HISTORY lyric meaning medieval modern moral movement narrative nature Neoclassic nineteenth century Northrop Frye Novel OUTLINE OF LITERARY Pastoral Period American Period English plays plot poem poetic poetry poets popular prose Realistic Period References Renaissance rhetorical rhyme Rhyme Royal rhythm Robert Romanticism Satire sense Shakespeare sometimes song SONNET SPONDEE stanza story structure style T. S. Eliot term theater theory Thomas tion tradition tragedy translation TROCHEE usually verse W. H. Auden William word writing written