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Apollonian and Dionysian
Apollonian and Dionysian
Apollonian and Dionysian represent the two impulses that guide authors of dramatic tragedy: rational and irrational forces. Apollonian impulse comes from Apollo, the Greek god of light and beauty, a symbol of intellectual orde, while Dionysian impulse comes from Dionysus, the Greek god of wine, a symbol of the unrestrained forces of nature.
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Apollinaire, Guillaume
Guillaume Apollinaire, a poet born in 1880 and deceased in 1918.
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Alex Apolstolides is a science fiction writer.
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Anti-novel
Anti-novel is the term coined by French critic Jean-Paul Sartre, referring to any experimental work of fiction that avoids novel’s familiar conventions. The anti-novel usually fragments and distorts its characters’ experience, forcing the reader to construct the reality of the story from a disordered narrative. Alain Robbe-Grillet, author of "Le voyeur" is the best-known anti-novelist.
Antithesis
Antithesis refers to the opposite of a character, situation etc.
Apocrypha
Apocrypha means writings that are tentatively attributed to an author, but not proven or universally accepted to be his/her works.
Archetype
Archetype is commonly used to describe the original model or pattern from which all other things of the same kind are made. The term was introduced to literary criticism from the psychology of Carl Jung, whose theory was that behind every person's "unconscious," or repressed memories of the past, lies the "collective unconscious" of the human race: memories of the countless typical experiences of the ancestors.
Apostrophe
Apostrophe means a statement, request or question addressed to an inanimate object or concept or to a nonexistent/ absent person.
Apollonian and Dionysian
Argument
Argument refers to the author's subject matter or principal idea.
Aristotelian criticism
Aristotelian criticism refers to the method of evaluating and analyzing tragedy that was established by the Greek philosopher Aristotle in his Poetics, referring to the form and logical structure of a work, apart from its historical or social context.
Aside
Aside refers to the comment that a stage performer makes with the intention of being heard by the audience, but supposedly not by other characters. Eugene O'Neill's Strange Interlude is an example of the aside in modern theater.
Assonance
Assonance is the repetition of similar vowel sounds in poetry.
Audience
Audience refers to the people for whom a piece of literature is written or intended for.
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