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  2. Literary fragment - Wikipedia

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    Byzantine Egyptian papyrus fragment. A literary fragment is a piece of text that may be part of a larger work, or that employs a 'fragmentary' form characterised by physical features such as short paragraphs or sentences separated by white space, and thematic features such as discontinuity, ambivalence, ambiguity, or lack of a traditional narrative structure.

  3. Glossary of archaeology - Wikipedia

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    A fragment of pottery. [32] In specialised usage sherd is preferred over the more common spelling shard, where sherd refers to ceramics and shard to glass. [33] profile Vertical exposure of an excavated area, feature or artefact (as seen from the side), possibly also in section; a drawing or photograph of the same.

  4. Glossary of geology - Wikipedia

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    A compact, hard, very fine-grained white to creamy white rock which breaks into sharp angular fragments. Quartzite is always associated with other metamorphic rocks, while cemented sandstone is always associated with other sedimentary rocks. Quaternary The most recent of the three periods of the Cenozoic Era in the standard geologic time scale.

  5. Fragmentology (manuscripts) - Wikipedia

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    Fragments of 12th-century glossed Bible reinforcing book spine (outer cover removed), Yale Law School library. Fragmentology is the study of surviving fragments of manuscripts (mainly manuscripts from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance in the case of European manuscript cultures).

  6. Sappho - Wikipedia

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    She was best-known in antiquity for her love poetry; other themes in the surviving fragments of her work include family and religion. She probably wrote poetry for both individual and choral performance. Most of her best-known and best-preserved fragments explore personal emotions and were probably composed for solo performance.

  7. Glossary of literary terms - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  8. Disjecta membra - Wikipedia

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    Fragments of ancient writing, especially ancient Latin poetry found in other works, are commonly referred to as disjecta membra. [2] The terms disiecta membra and disjecta membra are paraphrased from the Roman lyric poet Horace (65 BC – 8 BC), who wrote of disiecti membra poetae in his Satires, 1.4.62, referring to the "limbs of a dismembered ...

  9. Fragmentary novel - Wikipedia

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    A fragmentary novel is a novel made of fragments, vignettes, segments, documents or chapters that can be read in isolation and/or as part of the greater whole of the book. . These novels typically lack a traditional plot or set of characters and often are the product of a cultural cr