enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Defenestration - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defenestration

    Autodefenestration (or self-defenestration) is the term used for the act of jumping, propelling oneself, or causing oneself to fall, out of a window. In the Acts of the Apostles in the New Testament, the accidental autodefenestration of a young man of Troas named Eutychus is recorded.

  3. List of autodidacts - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_autodidacts

    Joseph Conrad, regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language. Though he did not speak English fluently until his twenties, he was a master prose stylist who brought a non-English sensibility into English literature. William Faulkner, Nobel Prize for Literature. Dropped out of college. [5]

  4. Glossary of literary terms - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_literary_terms

    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 ...

  5. List of literary movements - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_literary_movements

    A group of Romantic poets from the English Lake District who wrote about nature and the sublime [37] William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Southey: Pre-Raphaelites: Founded in 1848, primarily English movement based ostensibly on undoing innovations by the painter Raphael. Many were both painters and poets [38]

  6. List of English novelists - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_novelists

    This is a list of novelists from England writing for adults and young adults. Please add only one novel title or comment on fiction per name. Other genres appear in other lists and on subject's page. References appear on the individual pages.

  7. List of English-language books considered the best - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English-language...

    This is a list of English-language novels that multiple media outlets and commentators have considered to be among the best of all time. The books included on this list are on at least three "best/greatest of all time" lists.

  8. Twitter accuses Michelle Obama of pushing 'racist' literature ...

    www.aol.com/news/twitter-accuses-michelle-obama...

    Twitter users defending Melania Trump are taking aim at Obama for pushing "racist" literature after Trump was criticized for the same books.

  9. Illeism - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illeism

    ɪ z əm /; from Latin ille: “he; that man”) is the act of referring to oneself in the third person instead of first person. It is sometimes used in literature as a stylistic device. In real-life usage, illeism can reflect a number of different stylistic intentions or involuntary circumstances.