The Guide to Literary Terms (MAXNotes Literature Guides)Research & Education Assoc., 2013 M01 1 - 128 páginas REA's MAXnotes Guide to Literary Terms REA's book is a concise, easy-to-use guide to the literary terms and devices which high school and undergraduate students encounter most often. The main body of the book is an alphabetical listing of approximately 150 of the most-commonly encountered literary terms or devices. The entries are simplified to enable students with no knowledge of the terms to become comfortable with their uses in a short time. Each entry in the book includes a definition of the literary term or device, a history of the term's use and origin, and specific references to texts in which the term has been used. |
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... , a phrase invented by Martin Esslin in 1961 to refer to the plays of such 1950s dramatists as Eugéne Ionesco , Edward Albee , Jean Genet , Harold Pinter , and Samuel Beckett . 4 ( the ) Absurd From Camus's The Stranger Aesthetics.
... , a phrase invented by Martin Esslin in 1961 to refer to the plays of such 1950s dramatists as Eugéne Ionesco , Edward Albee , Jean Genet , Harold Pinter , and Samuel Beckett . 4 ( the ) Absurd From Camus's The Stranger Aesthetics.
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... refer to . " John Milton uses allusion in Paradise Lost : ... ; and what resounds In fable or romance of Uther's son Begirt with British and Armoric knights ; And all who since , baptized or infidel Jousted in Aspramont or Montalban ...
... refer to . " John Milton uses allusion in Paradise Lost : ... ; and what resounds In fable or romance of Uther's son Begirt with British and Armoric knights ; And all who since , baptized or infidel Jousted in Aspramont or Montalban ...
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... refers to a statement that is subject to more than one interpretation . The term is used for words that suggest two or more appropriate meanings or that convey both a basic meaning and complex overtones of that meaning . Sometimes ...
... refers to a statement that is subject to more than one interpretation . The term is used for words that suggest two or more appropriate meanings or that convey both a basic meaning and complex overtones of that meaning . Sometimes ...
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... refers to action which is disappointing in con- trast to the previous moment of intense interest or anything which follows the climax . The effect may be comic and is of- ten intended to be . According to Samuel Johnson , who first ...
... refers to action which is disappointing in con- trast to the previous moment of intense interest or anything which follows the climax . The effect may be comic and is of- ten intended to be . According to Samuel Johnson , who first ...
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... refers to any literary selection that reveals and predicts the future . Usually , the term is used to refer to the coming of the end of the world and the expected final battle between good and evil . The word is from the Greek ...
... refers to any literary selection that reveals and predicts the future . Usually , the term is used to refer to the coming of the end of the world and the expected final battle between good and evil . The word is from the Greek ...
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