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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 ...
Doki Doki Literature Club! (sometimes abbreviated as DDLC) is a 2017 visual novel video game developed by Team Salvato for personal computers.The story follows a student who reluctantly joins his high school's literature club at the insistence of his friend Sayori, and is given the option to romantically pursue her, Yuri, or Natsuki.
This time period was the heyday of the Book of the Month Club and the Great Books movement, both of which encouraged average Americans to take on hefty literary novels. [ 1 ] Women’s chief role in founding the modern book club—a consequence of being marginalized from other intellectual spaces—has gone on to influence the book industry ...
Antiphrasis is the rhetorical device of saying the opposite of what is actually meant in such a way that it is obvious what the true intention is. [1]Some authors treat and use antiphrasis just as irony, euphemism or litotes.
Thesaurus Linguae Latinae. A modern english thesaurus. A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms ...
The letter as a form of second-person literature; see Epistle. Epistulae (Pliny) Epistolary novel, a long-form fiction composed of letters (epistles) Open letter, a public letter as distinguished from private correspondence; Letter to the editor, a letter sent to a newspaper, magazine, or online publication by one of its readers and meant to be ...
Barbara Ann Steward (sometimes spelled "Stewart") (1836 – 1861) was a teacher, lecturer, abolitionist and advocate for industrial education African-Americans. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] She was the daughter of abolitionist Austin Steward .
Letters Live takes the format of a series of readings of letters, typically performed by famous actors. Some actors have a preference for letters they would like to read. The letters are sometimes accompanied by music. [2] Performers are generally onstage alone, at a lectern, and are usually not known to the audience in advance. [3] [4]