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Accent
Accent
Accent is the stress or emphasis placed on a syllable in poetry.
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Accent
Accent is the stress or emphasis placed on a syllable in poetry.
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A Voice at the Back Door
A Voice at the Back Door is a novel by Elizabeth Spencer.
Angle of Repose
Angle of Repose is a novel by Wallace Stegner.
All the King's Men
All the King's Men is a novel by Robert Penn Warren.
Aestheticism
Aestheticism refers to an artistic and literary movement from the nineteenth century. Followers of the movement believed that art shouldn’t be mixed with political, social or moral teaching. Oscar Wilde was one of the best-known "aesthetes".
Abstract
Abstract means as a noun, a small summary of a longer work; as an adjective regarding writing or literary works, it refers to words or phrases that name things that can not be known through the five senses.
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Act
Act is a major section of a play, that is divided into varying numbers of shorter scenes.
Affective fallacy
Affective fallacy means an error in judging the faults or merits of a literature work. The "error" results from stressing the importance of the work's effect upon the reader —how it makes a reader "feel" emotionally, what it does as a literary work — instead of pointing the inner qualities as a created object, what it "is".
Age of Johnson
Age of Johnson refers to the period between 1750 and 1798 in English literature. Also known as Age of Sensibility, it was named after the most prominent literary figure of the time, Samuel Johnson. It was a period of transition between the Age of Reason, rational works or Neoclassical period, and the emphasis on individual feelings of the Romantic period. Significant writers of the Age of Johnson: the poets William Collins and Thomas Gray, the novelists Ann Radcliffe and Henry Mackenzie, the dramatists Richard Sheridan and Oliver Goldsmith.
Agrarians
Agrarians refers to a group of Southern American writers of the 1930s and 1940s that fostered an economic and cultural program meant for the South and based on agriculture, in opposition to the North’s industrial society. Members of the original Agrarians were John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate, and Robert Penn Warren.
Allegory
Allegory is a narrative technique in which characters representing things or abstract ideas are used to teach a lesson or convey a message. It is typically used to teach religious, moral or ethical lessons and sometimes it is used for satiric or political purposes.
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