enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. 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 ...

  3. Illegitimacy in fiction - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegitimacy_in_fiction

    Passing mentions are omitted from this article. Many of these stories explore the social pain and exclusion felt by illegitimate "natural children". Illegitimacy was a common theme in Victorian literature. "Illegitimacy was a popular subject for Victorian writers, not only because of its value as a plot device, but also because of the changing ...

  4. Lists of pejorative terms for people - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_pejorative_terms...

    Lists of pejorative terms for people include: . List of ethnic slurs. List of ethnic slurs and epithets by ethnicity; List of common nouns derived from ethnic group names

  5. Children's and young adult literature - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children's_and_young_adult...

    This article about children's literature is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

  6. Category:Child characters in literature - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Child_characters...

    M. Clara Mackintosh; Johnny Mackintosh; Madeline; Maisy Mouse; Draco Malfoy; John Mandrake; Martine (character) Mary's Child; Matthew Looney; Max (book series) Max and Moritz

  7. Category:English children's writers - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:English_children's...

    Children's literature portal; ... Pages in category "English children's writers" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 761 total.

  8. Thesaurus - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thesaurus

    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 ...

  9. Misery lit - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misery_lit

    Some of the genre's authors have said they write in order to come to terms with their traumatic memories, and to help readers do the same. [8] Supporters of the genre state the genre's popularity indicates a growing cultural willingness to directly confront topics—specifically child sexual abuse—that once would have been ignored or swept under the rug.