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Tolkien's prose style. The prose style of J. R. R. Tolkien 's Middle-earth books, especially The Lord of the Rings, is remarkably varied. Commentators have noted that Tolkien selected linguistic registers to suit different peoples, such as simple and modern for Hobbits and more archaic for Dwarves, Elves, and the Rohirrim.
Cuneiform is the earliest known writing system[6][7]and was originally developed to write the Sumerian languageof southern Mesopotamia(modern Iraq). Over the course of its history, cuneiform was adapted to write a number of languages in addition to Sumerian.
Glossary of literary terms. This glossary of literary terms is a list of definitions of terms and concepts used in the discussion, classification, analysis, and criticism of all types of literature, such as poetry, novels, and picture books, as well as of grammar, syntax, and language techniques.
Ethos – a rhetorical appeal to an audience based on the speaker/writer's credibility. Ethopoeia – the act of putting oneself into the character of another to convey that person's feelings and thoughts more vividly. Eulogy – a speech or writing in praise of a person, especially one who recently died or retired.
A figure of speech or rhetorical figure is a word or phrase that intentionally deviates from straightforward language use or literal meaning to produce a rhetorical or intensified effect (emotionally, aesthetically, intellectually, etc.). [1][2] In the distinction between literal and figurative language, figures of speech constitute the latter.
Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius. " Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius " is a short story by the 20th-century Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges. The story was first published in the Argentine journal Sur, May 1940. The "postscript" dated 1947 is intended to be anachronistic, set seven years in the future. The first English-language translation of the ...
quae non posuisti, ne tollas. do not take away what you did not put in place. Plato, Laws. quae non prosunt singula multa iuvant. what alone is not useful helps when accumulated. Ovid, Remedia amoris. quaecumque sunt vera. whatsoever is true. frequently used as motto; taken from Philippians 4:8 of the Bible.
The codex (pl.: codices / ˈkoʊdɪsiːz /) [ 1 ] was the historical ancestor format of the modern book. Technically the vast majority of modern books use the codex format of a stack of pages bound at one edge, along the side of the text. But the term "codex" is now reserved for older manuscript books, which mostly used sheets of vellum ...