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  2. Glossary of literary terms - Wikipedia

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    Also apophthegm. A terse, pithy saying, akin to a proverb, maxim, or aphorism. aposiopesis A rhetorical device in which speech is broken off abruptly and the sentence is left unfinished. apostrophe A figure of speech in which a speaker breaks off from addressing the audience (e.g., in a play) and directs speech to a third party such as an opposing litigant or some other individual, sometimes ...

  3. Key Word in Context - Wikipedia

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    Key Word In Context (KWIC) is the most common format for concordance lines. The term KWIC was coined by Hans Peter Luhn. [1] The system was based on a concept called keyword in titles, which was first proposed for Manchester libraries in 1864 by Andrea Crestadoro.

  4. Index term - Wikipedia

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    A popular form of keywords on the web are tags, which are directly visible and can be assigned by non-experts. Index terms can consist of a word, phrase, or alphanumerical term. They are created by analyzing the document either manually with subject indexing or automatically with automatic indexing or more sophisticated methods of keyword ...

  5. Glossary of rhetorical terms - Wikipedia

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    Hermeneutics – the theoretical underpinnings of interpreting texts, usually religious or literary. Heteroglossia – the use of a variety of voices or styles within one literary work or context. Homeoteleuton – a figure of speech where adjacent or parallel words have similar endings inside a verse, a sentence. Authors often use it to evoke ...

  6. Gloss (annotation) - Wikipedia

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    A gloss is a notation regarding the main text in a document. Shown is a parchment page from the Royal Library of Copenhagen. A gloss is a brief notation, especially a marginal or interlinear one, of the meaning of a word or wording in a text.

  7. Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society - Wikipedia

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    Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society is a book by the Welsh Marxist academic Raymond Williams published in 1976 by Croom Helm.. Originally intended to be published along with the author's 1958 work Culture and Society, this work examines the history of more than a hundred words that are familiar and yet confusing: Art, Bureaucracy, Culture, Educated, Management, Masses, Nature ...

  8. Keyword (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    In corpus linguistics a key word is a word which occurs in a text more often than we would expect to occur by chance alone. [1] Key words are calculated by carrying out a statistical test (e.g., loglinear or chi-squared) which compares the word frequencies in a text against their expected frequencies derived in a much larger corpus, which acts as a reference for general language use.

  9. New historicism - Wikipedia

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    New Historicism, a form of literary theory which aims to understand intellectual history through literature and literature through its cultural context, follows the 1950s field of history of ideas and refers to itself as a form of cultural poetics.