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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 ...
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.
Literary movements are a way to divide literature into categories of similar philosophical, topical, or aesthetic features, as opposed to divisions by genre or period. Like other categorizations, literary movements provide language for comparing and discussing literary works. These terms are helpful for curricula or anthologies. [1]
Literature can be described as all of the following: Communication – activity of conveying information. Communication requires a sender, a message, and an intended recipient, although the receiver need not be present or aware of the sender's intent to communicate at the time of communication; thus communication can occur across vast distances in time and space.
In literary theory, literariness is the organisation of language which through special linguistic and formal properties distinguishes literary texts from non-literary texts (Baldick 2008). The defining features of a literary work do not reside in extraliterary conditions such as history or sociocultural phenomena under which a literary text ...
Alireza Anoushirvani (from Shiraz University) calls the book one of the most authentic books taught in Western universities. [2] In a review published in AUMLA, Derek P. Scales (from the ANU) writes: "One cannot but be impressed by the range of Professor Prawer's reading, his familiarity with so many works in various literatures which have been the subject of comparative studies, and his ...
Masterplots is a reference book series which summarizes the plots of significant works of literature and films. [1] The first edition was published in 1949 by Frank N. Magill of Salem Press. [ 2 ] It remains the flagship product of the publisher.
Derek Attridge FBA (born 6 May 1945) is a South African-born British literary scholar in the field of English literature.He has made major contributions to several fields: literary theory, the forms and history of poetry, Irish fiction (especially the work of James Joyce), and South African literature.