A Handbook to Literature"Based on the original edition by William Flint Thrall and Addison Hibbard." Alphabetic entries define, explain, and illustrate terms associated with American and English literature. |
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Page 173
... modern English look like a different language from OLD ENGLISH come from the operation of certain tendencies in language development , such as the progressive simplification of the grammar ; and the accidents of history , such as the ...
... modern English look like a different language from OLD ENGLISH come from the operation of certain tendencies in language development , such as the progressive simplification of the grammar ; and the accidents of history , such as the ...
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... modern ” in the common sense of the term , as much that is contemporary is not . Modern refers to a group of charac- teristics , and not all of them appear in any one writer who merits the designa- tion modern . In a broad sense modern ...
... modern ” in the common sense of the term , as much that is contemporary is not . Modern refers to a group of charac- teristics , and not all of them appear in any one writer who merits the designa- tion modern . In a broad sense modern ...
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... modern writers be termed philosophical existentialists , EXISTENTIALISM has created a schema within which much of the modern temper can see a reflection of its attitudes and assumptions ( see EXISTENTIALISM ) . The modern revels in a ...
... modern writers be termed philosophical existentialists , EXISTENTIALISM has created a schema within which much of the modern temper can see a reflection of its attitudes and assumptions ( see EXISTENTIALISM ) . The modern revels in a ...
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ACCENT ACTION American APPRENTICESHIP NOVEL BALLAD Bible born called CHARACTER CLASSICAL COMEDY COMEDY OF MANNERS conventional COUPLET CRITICISM developed DRAMA early effect eighteenth century elements Elizabethan emotional England English Literature EPIC ESSAY example expression Ezra Pound FICTION French George Gerard Manley Hopkins GOTHIC NOVEL Greek Henry human I. A. Richards IAMBIC IAMBIC PENTAMETER idea James John Johnson language Latin lines Literary History LYRIC meaning medieval METAPHYSICAL POETRY metrical Middle English modern moral movement NARRATIVE nature nineteenth century NOVEL Outline of Literary PASTORAL pattern period person phrase PLAYS PLOT POEM poetic POETRY POETS popular PROSE reader realistic References RENAISSANCE reprinted rhetorical RHYME Rhyme Royal RHYTHM Robert ROMANCE ROMANTICISM SATIRE scenes sense Shakespeare SHORT STORY sometimes SONG SONNET speech STANZA stressed syllable STRUCTURE STYLE T. S. Eliot theater theory Thomas tion tradition TRAGEDY TROCHEE usually VERSE W. H. Auden William words writers written