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Literary forgery (also known as literary mystification, literary fraud or literary hoax) is writing, such as a manuscript or a literary work, which is either deliberately misattributed to a historical or invented author, or is a purported memoir or other presumably nonfictional writing deceptively presented as true when, in fact, it presents ...
The term antonym (and the related antonymy) is commonly taken to be synonymous with opposite, but antonym also has other more restricted meanings. Graded (or gradable) antonyms are word pairs whose meanings are opposite and which lie on a continuous spectrum (hot, cold).
M. Jose E. Marco; Władysław Machejek; James Macpherson; Ern Malley hoax; Manuscripts of Dvůr Králové and Zelená Hora; Gina Marks; Mathilde Lefebvre letter
Archaeological forgery; Art forgery; Black propaganda — false information and material that purports to be from a source on one side of a conflict, but is actually from the opposing side; Counterfeiting. Counterfeit money — types of counterfeit coins include the cliché forgery, the fourrée and the slug; Counterfeit consumer goods ...
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 ...
Don Quixote and his sidekick Sancho Panza, as illustrated by Gustave Doré: the characters' contrasting qualities [1] are reflected here even in their physical appearances. In any narrative, a foil is a character who contrasts with another character, typically, a character who contrasts with the protagonist, in order to better highlight or differentiate certain qualities of the protagonist.
The handwriting of the Queen and Southampton did not at all resemble authentic examples. Words appearing in the forgeries (upset, for example) were not used in Shakespeare's time, or were used in a different sense than that of the papers. [33] The second blow came two days later, on 2 April, with the failure of Vortigern at Drury Lane Theatre ...
An interpolation, in relation to literature and especially ancient manuscripts, is an entry or passage in a text that was not written by the original author.As there are often several generations of copies between an extant copy of an ancient text and the original, each handwritten by different scribes, there is a natural tendency for extraneous material to be inserted into such documents over ...