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The newest installment of this depended on literary spouse covers all facets of literary idea, from definitions of technical phrases to characterizations of literary routine. aimed at scholars, academics, readers, and writers alike, The Penguin Dictionary of Literary phrases and Literary Theory explains severe jargon (intertextuality, aporia), colleges of literary idea (structuralism, feminist criticism), literary varieties (sonnet, ottava rima), and genres (elegy, pastoral) and examines artifacts, old locales, archetypes, origins of famous words, and masses, even more. Scholarly, effortless, finished, or even interesting, it is a source that no word-lover could be with no.
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Seealso tuprtIMAcER. ) which appearsto be going to malte sensebut does not. A wellknown exampleis Swinburne'sNephelidia. , /. Also known asthe Cretic foot, it is believedto have originatedwith the Cretan poet Thaletas(7th c. rc). Rare in English verse,except when mixed with other feet. Tennysonused it in The Oahz Live thi Life, Y6ung ind 6ld, Like y6n 6ak, -rn Bright spring, Living g6ld. And Coleridge describedand imitated it: First ind List I b6ing l6ng I middlE, sh6n I Amph'imicEr Strikes his thun I dEringho6ves I hke i pr6ud I high-br6d RicEr.
Which involvesthe magnificationof an eventby referencero the impossible. There arefamousexamplesin Marvell'spoem ToHis Coy Mistess and his The Definition of Love, which begins: My Love is of a birth as rare As 'tis for object strangeand high: It was begottenby despair Upon Impossibility. The poem should end with the samefirst syllable, line or word with which it begins. Acolic Aeolic The name derives from the Greek dialect which Alcaeus and Sappho used for their poetry. ) are brought close together so that the choriambs (see cHoRIAMBus) are very noticeable.