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Literature

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

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assonance

Literature; General literature

The repetition of internal vowel sounds in nearby words that do not end the same, for example, "asleep under a tree," or "each evening." Similar endings result in rhyme, as in ...

aside

Literature; General literature

In drama, a speech directed to the audience that supposedly is not audible to the other characters onstage at the time. When Hamlet first appears onstage, for example, his aside ...

archetype

Literature; General literature

A term used to describe universal symbols that evoke deep and sometimes unconscious responses in a reader. In literature, characters, images, and themes that symbolically embody ...

approximate rhyme

Literature; General literature

See rhyme.

apostrophe

Literature; General literature

An address, either to someone who is absent and therefore cannot hear the speaker or to something nonhuman that cannot comprehend. Apostrophe often provides a speaker the ...

antihero

Literature; General literature

A protagonist who has the opposite of most of the traditional attributes of a hero. He or she may be bewildered, ineffectual, deluded, or merely pathetic. Often what antiheroes ...

antagonist

Literature; General literature

The character, force, or collection of forces in fiction or drama that opposes the protagonist and gives rise to the conflict of the story; an opponent of the protagonist, such as ...