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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 ...
"The Alien Corn" (short story) W. Somerset Maugham: John Keats, "Ode to a Nightingale" All the King's Men: Robert Penn Warren: Anon., "Humpty Dumpty" All Passion Spent: Vita Sackville-West: John Milton, Samson Agonistes: Alone on a Wide, Wide Sea: Michael Morpurgo: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner: Anglo-Saxon Attitudes ...
Examples are The Solitaire Mystery, where the protagonist receives a small book from a baker, in which the baker tells the story of a sailor who tells the story of another sailor, and Sophie's World, about a girl who is actually a character in a book that is being read by Hilde, a girl in another dimension. Later on in the book Sophie questions ...
For example, the phrase, "John, my best friend" uses the scheme known as apposition. Tropes (from Greek trepein, 'to turn') change the general meaning of words. An example of a trope is irony, which is the use of words to convey the opposite of their usual meaning ("For Brutus is an honorable man; / So are they all, all honorable men").
Ancient Indian inter-related collection of animal fables in verse and prose, in a frame story format. Similar stories are found in later works including Aesop's Fables and the Sindbad tales in Arabian Nights. [4] Aesop's Fables: Aesop: c. 600 BC [5] [6] Kathasaritsagara: Somadeva: 11th Century AD
Frontispiece to The How and Why Library, 1909 "Once upon a time" is a stock phrase used to introduce a narrative of past events, typically in fairy tales and folk tales. It has been used in some form since at least 1380 [1] in storytelling in the English language and has started many narratives since 1600.
In editorial practice, a trope is "a substitution of a word or phrase by a less literal word or phrase". [2] Semantic change has expanded the definition of the literary term trope to also describe a writer's usage of commonly recurring or overused literary techniques and rhetorical devices (characters and situations), [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] motifs ...
Monograph – a book on a single subject or an aspect of a subject, usually by a single author; Networked book or Open book – a book that is written, edited, and read in a networked environment (such as Wikipedia) Novelization – a book that adapts the story of a work created for another medium, such as a film, TV series, comic strip or ...