Literary Devices
... Teachers love talking about literary devices, but what exactly is a literary device? Actually, it's just a fancier term for the different techniques writers sometimes employ to create a mood or atmosphere, to put across an idea, to make a point, to describe a person, a thing, or an event. The follow ...
... Teachers love talking about literary devices, but what exactly is a literary device? Actually, it's just a fancier term for the different techniques writers sometimes employ to create a mood or atmosphere, to put across an idea, to make a point, to describe a person, a thing, or an event. The follow ...
allegory (AL-eh-GOR-ee): a narrative that serves as an
... abstract ideas to get a point across, while a symbol is a representation of an idea or concept that can have a different meaning throughout a literary work (A Handbook to Literature). One well-known example of an allegory is Dante’s The Divine Comedy. In Inferno, Dante is on a pilgrimage to try to u ...
... abstract ideas to get a point across, while a symbol is a representation of an idea or concept that can have a different meaning throughout a literary work (A Handbook to Literature). One well-known example of an allegory is Dante’s The Divine Comedy. In Inferno, Dante is on a pilgrimage to try to u ...
The Blackwell Guide to Literary Theory
... New Critical practice strongly favors poetic texts, in large part because they exemplify to a greater degree the ambiguity, irony, and PARADOX considered by New Critics to be crucial elements of poetic form. As T. S. Eliot, the poet and critic who had a significant effect on the New Critics, wrote, ...
... New Critical practice strongly favors poetic texts, in large part because they exemplify to a greater degree the ambiguity, irony, and PARADOX considered by New Critics to be crucial elements of poetic form. As T. S. Eliot, the poet and critic who had a significant effect on the New Critics, wrote, ...
Allingham, Philip V. “Contemporary Literary and Critical Theory.”
... literature can have no fixed, single meaning. This opposes the close reading of the formalist who claims the literary elements reveal meaning. The author cannot control the meaning of his text because he cannot control the language of his text. ...
... literature can have no fixed, single meaning. This opposes the close reading of the formalist who claims the literary elements reveal meaning. The author cannot control the meaning of his text because he cannot control the language of his text. ...
THE FOLLOWING TIPS COULD BE HELPFUL Some Recurrent
... distrusted. Likewise is the concept of a human nature as a generalised norm. This could be Eurocentric or androcentric in fact. ...
... distrusted. Likewise is the concept of a human nature as a generalised norm. This could be Eurocentric or androcentric in fact. ...