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Byzantine Egyptian papyrus fragment. A literary fragment is a piece of text that may be part of a larger work, or that employs a 'fragmentary' form characterised by physical features such as short paragraphs or sentences separated by white space, and thematic features such as discontinuity, ambivalence, ambiguity, or lack of a traditional narrative structure.
A fragmentary novel is a novel made of fragments, vignettes, segments, documents or chapters that can be read in isolation and/or as part of the greater whole of the book. . These novels typically lack a traditional plot or set of characters and often are the product of a cultural cr
Fragments of 12th-century glossed Bible reinforcing book spine (outer cover removed), Yale Law School library. Fragmentology is the study of surviving fragments of manuscripts (mainly manuscripts from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance in the case of European manuscript cultures).
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 ...
Disjecta membra (a fragment of ancient Greek pottery) Fragments of ancient writing, especially ancient Latin poetry found in other works, are commonly referred to as disjecta membra . [ 2 ] The terms disiecta membra and disjecta membra are paraphrased from the Roman lyric poet Horace (65 BC – 8 BC), who wrote of disiecti membra poetae in his ...
Literature is a fragment of fragments: the least of what happened and was spoken, has been written; and of the things that have been written, very few have been preserved. And yet, with all the fragmentary nature of literature, we find thousand fold repetition; which shows how limited is man's mind and destiny.
Writing a closed letter 'O' means that you are a private person and an introvert. If the dot on your 'i' lands high above the letter, you are considered to be imaginative.
Fragment (computer graphics), all the data necessary to generate a pixel in the frame buffer Fragment (logic) , a syntactically restricted subset of a logical language URI fragment , the component of a URL following the "#" that identifies a portion of a larger document