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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 ...
Penguin Books, 2000. ISBN 0-14-051363-9. Dana Gioia. The Longman Dictionary of Literary Terms: Vocabulary for the Informed Reader. Longman, 2005. ISBN 0-321-33194-X. Sharon Hamilton. Essential Literary Terms: A Brief Norton Guide with Exercises. W. W. Norton, 2006. ISBN 0-393-92837-3. William Harmon. A Handbook to Literature. Prentice Hall, 2005.
The first person to approach the issue of literary space from the semiotic point of view was Juri Lotman. [2] According to Lotman, artistic space is only a model of real space, not its copy. He argued that the information provided by the text about space is incomplete and, consequently, space also is not complete.
Philip "Tete" Akoda (Born 1 May 1996) is a Nigerian author, lexicographer and entrepreneur. [1] [2] He has written a number of Efik literary works including "A 21st Century Efik pocket Dictionary", "Learn Efik 1-2" and "Groundwork of Eniong Abatim History (1670-2020)". [3]
Roget's Thesaurus is composed of six primary classes. [5] Each class is composed of multiple divisions and then sections. This may be conceptualized as a tree containing over a thousand branches for individual "meaning clusters" or semantically linked words.
Online literature such as web fiction inside China has over 500 million readers, [120] therefore, online literature in China plays a much more important role than in the United States and the rest of the world. [121] Most books are available online, where the most popular novels find millions of readers.
Abbreviations for classical authors and texts are abbreviations used to refer to ancient authors and their works that are used in academic publications in the field of classical studies (Latin and Ancient Greek language, literature, history, archaeology). Two systems are in common use, based on the abbreviations lists of standard reference works:
A setting (or backdrop) is the time and geographic location within a narrative, either non-fiction or fiction. It is a literary element.The setting initiates the main backdrop and mood for a story.