Literature

Literature

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

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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 ...

masculine rhyme

Literature; General literature

See rhyme.

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...