A glossary of literary terms |
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User Review - jensenmk82 - LibraryThingAlthough entries are far from exhaustive, they are always illuminating, and the bibliographical indications are always valuable. This is a book that students of literature are wise to keep at hand. Read full review
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User Review - Bat - LibraryThing(The book I have appears to be a 1988 edition, maybe 3rd) Still, for me, the best book of its kind. Ample coverage of criticism, enough poetics to enhance anyone's learning curve, and very well indexed. Erudite and clear, nuff' said! Read full review
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Common terms and phrases
achieve action Alexander Pope allegory Anatomy of Criticism applied archetypal artistic audience ballad called Chap character classical Cleanth Brooks comedy comic common concept conventions couplet death developed device drama E. M. Forster effect eighteenth century elegy Elizabethan England English epic essay example fiction genres Greek heroic human humor I. A. Richards iambic imitation irony James John language lines literary criticism literature lyric M. H. Abrams medieval metaphor meter metrical Milton mode modern moral myth narrative narrator neoclassic Northrop Frye novel object pastoral period person play plot poem poetic poetry poets Pope prose R. S. Crane reader reference Renaissance rhetorical rhyme romance satire sense Shakespeare's short story signify song sonnet speech stanza stress style syllables T. S. Eliot term theory Thomas tion traditional tragedy tragic verse W. B. Yeats W. H. Auden W. K. Wimsatt words Wordsworth's writers written wrote
Bibliographic information
| Title | A glossary of literary terms Rinehart English pamphlets A Glossary of literary terms |
| Authors | Meyer Howard Abrams, Daniel Silas Norton |
| Edition | 3 |
| Publisher | Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1971 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | May 17, 2008 |
| Length | 193 pages |
| Subjects | › Language Arts & Disciplines / General Literary Criticism / Reference |
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