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Autobiography
Autobiography
Autobiography refers to the connected narrative that pmplies an individual telling his or her life story. Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography and Henry Adams's The Education of Henry Adams are among the typical autobiographies.
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Autobiography
Autobiography refers to the connected narrative that pmplies an individual telling his or her life story. Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography and Henry Adams's The Education of Henry Adams are among the typical autobiographies.
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Automatic writing
Automatic writing refers to the writing made without a preconceived plan in order to capture every random thought. Authors engaged in automatic writing don't revise their work, preserving the revealed truth and beauty of spontaneous expression. Automatic writing is noticeable in the work of the French poet Robert Desnos.
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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.
Autobiography
Automatic writing
Automatic writing refers to the writing made without a preconceived plan in order to capture every random thought. Authors engaged in automatic writing don't revise their work, preserving the revealed truth and beauty of spontaneous expression. Automatic writing is noticeable in the work of the French poet Robert Desnos.
Avant-garde
Avant-garde refers to the French term meaning "vanguard", used in literary criticism to describe new writing that rejects traditional approaches to literature, promoting innovations in style or content. Literary Avant-garde examples from the twentieth-century include the Black Mountain School of poets, the Bloomsbury Group and the Beat Movement.
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