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Allusion
Allusion
Allusion is a reference to a familiar historical or literary person or event in order to make an idea easier to understand.
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Allusion
Allusion is a reference to a familiar historical or literary person or event in order to make an idea easier to understand.
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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.
Alliteration
Alliteration is a poetic device that consist in repeating the first consonant sounds or any vowel sounds in words or syllables.
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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.
Angry Young Men
Angry Young Men refers to refers to |a group of British writers from the 1950s who expressed through their works bitterness and disillusionment with society. Their work have anti-heroes that rebels against a corrupt social order and strives for personal integrity.
Antagonist
Antagonist means the major character of a narrative or drama who works against the protagonist or hero.
Anthropomorphism
Anthropomorphism means the presentation of animals or objects with human characteristics or in human shape. The term is derived from the Greek word for "human form".
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