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Page 86
... sometimes used in a VERSE form called choriambics , in which the LINE consists of a TROCHEE , three choriam- bics , and an IAMBUS . Swinburne used the form , as did Rupert Brooke , whose line : " I have tend ed and loved | year up on ...
... sometimes used in a VERSE form called choriambics , in which the LINE consists of a TROCHEE , three choriam- bics , and an IAMBUS . Swinburne used the form , as did Rupert Brooke , whose line : " I have tend ed and loved | year up on ...
Page 255
... sometimes applied to all human discourse , sometimes limited to certain realms bounded by semantic , psychological , or cultural con- straints , and sometimes limited ( as by Marjorie Perloff ) to certain modern movements in the arts ...
... sometimes applied to all human discourse , sometimes limited to certain realms bounded by semantic , psychological , or cultural con- straints , and sometimes limited ( as by Marjorie Perloff ) to certain modern movements in the arts ...
Page 513
... sometimes in PROSE , sometimes VERSE ; sometimes purely musical , sometimes requiring DIA- LOGUE , presented antiphonally by the two parts of the choir . From this dialogue form of the trope developed the LITURGICAL DRAMA . See MEDIEVAL ...
... sometimes in PROSE , sometimes VERSE ; sometimes purely musical , sometimes requiring DIA- LOGUE , presented antiphonally by the two parts of the choir . From this dialogue form of the trope developed the LITURGICAL DRAMA . See MEDIEVAL ...
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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