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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 ...
Literary Terms and Criticism. Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. ISBN 0-333-96258-3. Edward Quinn. A Dictionary of Literary And Thematic Terms. Checkmark Books, 2006. ISBN 0-8160-6244-7. Lewis Turco. The Book of Literary Terms: The Genres of Fiction, Drama, Nonfiction, Literary Criticism, and Scholarship. Univ. Press of New England, 1999. ISBN 0-87451-955-1
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]
Аԥсшәа; العربية; Azərbaycanca; বাংলা; Башҡортса; Беларуская; Беларуская (тарашкевіца) Български
N. List of narrative forms; List of Nepenthes literature; List of New Testament minuscules (1–100) List of New Testament minuscules (1–1000) List of New Testament minuscules (101–200)
The Ego-Futurists were another poetry school within Russian Futurism during the 1910s, based on a personality cult. [53] [56] Most prominent figures among them are Igor Severyanin and Vasilisk Gnedov. The Acmeists were a Russian modernist poetic school, which emerged ca. 1911 and to symbols preferred direct expression through exact images.
Sitzprobe: (German-lit. "seated rehearsal") a term used in musical theatre and opera to describe a seated rehearsal, without blocking or dance, where the singers sing with the full pit or orchestra, with focus on integration of instrument and voice. It is often the first rehearsal where the complete orchestra and singers rehearse together and ...
Story structure or narrative structure is the recognizable or comprehensible way in which a narrative's different elements are unified, including in a particularly chosen order and sometimes specifically referring to the ordering of the plot: the narrative series of events, though this can vary based on culture.