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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 ...
An elegy is a poem of serious reflection, and in English literature usually a lament for the dead. However, according to The Oxford Handbook of the Elegy, "for all of its pervasiveness ... the 'elegy' remains remarkably ill defined: sometimes used as a catch-all to denominate texts of a somber or pessimistic tone, sometimes as a marker for textual monumentalizing, and sometimes strictly as a ...
Literary science had to have a firm theoretical basis and an accurate terminology. The structural laws of a specific field of literature had to be established before it was related to other fields. The evolution of literature must be studied as a system. All evidence, whether literary or non-literary must be analysed functionally.
In a story, we detect an isotopy when there is a repetition of a basic meaning trait (); such repetition, establishing some level of familiarity within the story, allows for a uniform reading/interpretation of it.
The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms offers a much broader definition for zeugma by defining it as any case of parallelism and ellipsis working together so that a single word governs two or more parts of a sentence. [17] Vicit pudorem libido timorem audacia rationem amentia. (Cicero, Pro Cluentio, VI.15)
Evoking both the muses and the encyclopedia in its title, Musapaedia aptly brings together a variety of poems and authors into a single volume.. A miscellany (UK: / m ɪ ˈ s ɛ l ə n i /, US: / ˈ m ɪ s ə l eɪ n i /) [1] [2] is a collection of various pieces of writing by different authors.
A scop (/ ʃ ɒ p / [1] or / s k ɒ p / [2]) was a poet as represented in Old English poetry.The scop is the Old English counterpart of the Old Norse skald, with the important difference that "skald" was applied to historical persons, and scop is used, for the most part, to designate oral poets within Old English literature.
Onomastics (or onomatology in older texts) is the study of proper names, including their etymology, history, and use.. An alethonym ('true name') or an orthonym ('real name') is the proper name of the object in question, the object of onomastic study.