A Glossary of Literary Terms, Volume 10Rinehart, 1957 - 105 pages Feeling large next to an ant or small next to an elephant; feeling fast next to a turtle but slow next to a car--these are some of the changing feelings a young child has. |
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abstract action Allegory applied Archetype Aristotle ballad blank verse Burlesque and Parody called classical Coleridge's comedy comic concept Connotation and Denotation Convention and Tradition couplet criticism death developed device diction didactic dramatic monologue effect eighteenth century elegy Elizabethan English epic essay evoke example feminine rhyme Figurative language genres Greek heroic human humanists I. A. Richards iambic imagery imitation irony Keats's lines literary forms literature lyric M. H. Abrams masculine rhyme meaning metaphor Metaphysical poets Meter Milton modern moral narrative neoclassic Neoclassic and Romantic novel object Paradise Lost passage pastoral pattern period play Plot and Character poem poetic poetry Pope prose Realism and Naturalism Renaissance Rhetorical figures rhyme satire Shakespeare's Short story sometimes sonnet speech Spenser's stanza Stock characters stressed syllables style symbols T. S. Eliot term tion tragedy tragic usually Vers de société W. H. Auden Wit and Humor word Wordsworth's writers wrote