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neutral omniscience
Literature; General literature
An omniscient narrator is an all-knowing narrator who is not a character in the story and who can move from place to place and pass back and forth through time, slipping into and out of characters as ...
lyric
Literature; General literature
A type of brief poem that expresses the personal emotions and thoughts of a single speaker. It is important to realize, however, that although the lyric is uttered in the first person, the speaker is ...
low comedy
Literature; General literature
Low comedy is generally associated with physical action and is less intellectual, which is in contrast to high comedy that uses verbal wit, such as puns, to interest the reader. See also comedy.
literary symbol
Literature; General literature
A literary or contextual symbol can be a setting, character, action, object, name, or anything else in a work that maintains its literal significance while suggesting other meanings. Such symbols go ...
literary ballad
Literature; General literature
A literary ballad is a narrative poem that is written in deliberate imitation of the language, form, and spirit of the traditional ballad, such as Keats’s "La Belle Dame sans Merci. See also ...
line
Literature; Poetry
A sequence of words printed as a separate entity on the page. In poetry, lines are usually measured by the number of feet they contain. The names for various line lengths are as follows: :: ...
