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Agrarians
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.
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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.
Robert
Robert, a poet born in 1812 and deceased in 1889.
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Agra library
All libraries in Agra, India. General and specialized libraries in the city of Agra.
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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.
Accent
Accent is the stress or emphasis placed on a syllable in poetry.
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.
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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.
Alliteration
Alliteration is a poetic device that consist in repeating the first consonant sounds or any vowel sounds in words or syllables.
Allusion
Allusion is a reference to a familiar historical or literary person or event in order to make an idea easier to understand.
Amerind Literature
Amerind Literature refers to the writing and oral traditions of Native Americans that originally passed on by word of mouth. It consisted largely of stories and events that were easily memorized; prose is often rhythmic like Poetry because it was recited to the beat of a ceremonial drum.
Analogy
Analogy means a comparison of two things made for explaining something unfamiliar through its similarities with something familiar, or to prove one point based on the acceptedness of another.
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