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StarMade, a voxel-based sandbox game set in space, developed and published by Robin "Schema" Promesberger. Teardown, a voxel-based game featuring fully destructible environments, developed and published by the studio Tuxedo Labs; The Sandbox; Trove is a voxel-based MMORPG with building elements, developed and published by Trion Worlds. [21]
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 ...
Apocalyptic literature – details the authors' visions of the end times as revealed by an angel or other heavenly messenger. [18] Bildungsroman – "coming of age" story. The German word "Bildung" can mean both "education" and "self-development." Crime fiction. Campus murder mystery; Historical fiction. Biographical novel; Historical romance [19]
English literature is literature written in the English language from the English-speaking world.The English language has developed over more than 1,400 years. [1] The earliest forms of English, a set of Anglo-Frisian dialects brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the fifth century, are called Old English.
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.
Voxel Bridge is an interactive public artwork under the Cambie Bridge in Vancouver, by artist Jessica Angel. The 8,000-square-foot (740 m 2 ) mural is a vinyl overlay on the bridge that reveals interactive elements through augmented reality (AR), with aspects of the artwork being sold as non-fungible tokens .
The spellings coombe, combe, coomb, and comb come from the Old English cumb, [11] which appears either to be a much earlier borrowing from a predecessor of modern Welsh, or to have an even earlier origin, given that there was an ancient Greek word κὑμβη (kumbē) meaning a hollow vessel. [12] In English literature, one can find the ...
The Martian poets were English poets of the 1970s and early 1980s, including Craig Raine and Christopher Reid. Through the heavy use of curious, exotic, and humorous metaphors, Martian poetry aimed to break the grip of "the familiar" in English poetry, by describing ordinary things as if through the eyes of a Martian.