poem,verse form- a composition written in metrical feet forming rhythmical lines potboiler- a literary composition of poor quality that was written quickly to make money (to boil the pot) tushery- writing of poor quality; characterized by affected choice of archaic words ...
Only in the 18th century was it first commonly used, supplanting the terms “poetry” and “poetic art,” which today designate literary works in verse. The term “literature” arose with the development of printing, which gave primacy to the “literary,” that is, “letter,” form of ...
Chinese lexicography developed in response to multiplication of characters. The last of a great series of dictionaries (still in standard use) was produced in the reign of K'ang Hsi (1662–1722). So-called encyclopedias, actually extracts from existing works, have been occasionally compiled; one...
I find here in all their literary works but a single tense, the present. View in context This hymn, as a literary work, is one of the finest in the collection. View in context Sergey Ivanovitch's position was still more difficult from the fact that, since he had finished his book, ...
The use of kennings in literature is characteristically related to works in Old English poetry where the author would use a twist of words, figure of speech or magic poetic phrase or a newly created compound sentence or phrase to refer to a person, object, place, action or idea. The use ...
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Writers can embrace genre, can use genre, without being controlled by it. Readers can use genre to find stories or books they enjoy while also exploring works outside of that genre. Genre can be incredibly fun! But only if you hold it in tension with your own work of telling (or findin...
The use of kennings in literature is characteristically related to works in Old English poetry where the author would use a twist of words, figure of speech or magic poetic phrase or a newly created compound sentence or phrase to refer to a person, object, place, action or idea. The use ...
Literary techniques, however, are not universal or necessary in the sense that not all works contain instances of them. Simile and irony are examples of literary techniques. While many poems contain similes, not all do. Simile, therefore, is a literary technique instead of a literary element. ...
it has been argued thatone cannot understand literature unless one writes it,that one cannot and should not study Pope without trying his own hand at heroic couplets or an Elizabethan drama without himself writing a drama in blank verse.Yet useful as the experience of literary creation is to ...