Literature

Literature

Of or pertaining to the art of writing in any form or style, most especially published works.

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The Red Pyramid

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Rick Riordan’s The Red Pyramid is subtitled “The Kane Chronicles, vol 1. This is the first of a planned trilogy. Dr. Julius Kane is a widower and Egyptologist. His son, Carter, ...

anti-novel

Literature; Fiction

A form of experimental fiction that dispenses with certain traditional elements of novel-writing like the analysis of characters' states of mind or the unfolding of a sequential ...

understatement

Literature; Fiction

A figure of speech in which a writer or speaker says less than what he or she means; the opposite of exaggeration. The last line of Frost's "Birches" illustrates this literary ...

tone

Literature; Fiction

The implied attitude of a writer toward the subject and characters of a work.

synecdoche

Literature; Fiction

A figure of speech in which a part is substituted for the whole. An example: Lend me a hand. See Metonymy.

syntax

Literature; Fiction

The grammatical order of words in a sentence or line of verse or dialogue. The organization of words and phrases and clauses in sentences of prose, verse, and dialogue