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A literary movement in early twentieth-century Russia, reacting against symbolism and concerned with greater immediacy in poetic language.
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(derogatory) Any of the imagist poets of the American school influenced by Amy Lowell (1874–1925).
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(Grecian) Alternative spelling of anecdote [A short account of a real incident or person, often humorous or interesting.]
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(literature) A literary work challenging the conventions of the epic.
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(narratology) Of, pertaining to or typical of an antihero.
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(poetry) A literary movement that attempts to break away from the normal conventions of poetry.
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(literature) Challenging the conventions of tragedy.
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Something, as a writing, that is of doubtful authorship or authority (formerly also used attributively).
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Written or appreciated for aesthetic value rather than content
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(literature, narratology) A narrative logic, characteristic of science fiction, whereby devices used in the story are lent plausibility by their being placed in the context of the fictional universe, which is imagined to be scientifically consistent.
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Alternative letter-case form of Eddic [Of or pertaining to the Edda (collection of Old Norse literature).]
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Obsolete form of elegiac. [Of or relating to an elegy.]
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(obsolete, rare) an elegist
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Alternative form of elenctic [Serving to refute, refutative, especially as part of a systematic interrogation; pertaining to rhetorical elenchus or cross-examination.]
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(logic) Alternative form of elenctic [Serving to refute, refutative, especially as part of a systematic interrogation; pertaining to rhetorical elenchus or cross-examination.]
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Focused on a literary work.
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Resembling or characteristic of an essay.
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Relating to fictocriticism.
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(literature) An Italian literary movement, from the period just before the First World War, characterised by the use of short pieces of dramatic prose and fragmentary images
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(historical) A teacher of prose literature and letters in Ancient Greece.
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(literary) A spell which invokes a mythical narrative, asking for the events it describes or similar ones to be enacted (as found in some Greek, Egyptian and other inscriptions).
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An idyllic style in poetry etc.
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Alternative form of imagist [Characteristic of or pertaining to imagism.]
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(nonce word) Like Jeremy Taylor or his prose style; solemn, elaborate, ornate.
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(derogatory, historical) The style or approach of the Lake Poets, a group of English Romantic poets from the Lake District.
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Alternative form of Latinistic [Of, pertaining to, or derived from, Latin; in the Latin style or idiom.]
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A plausible story set in the historical past, but whose historicity is uncertain.
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Of or pertaining to a legend or to legends.
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The love of language and words
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(religion) The study of words in search for divine truth, compare numerology.
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The love of words and word games.
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The interest, field, or study of lyrics
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Resembling a mantra; fervent and often repeated.
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Relating to metaliterature.
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Relating to the opera librettos of Pietro Metastasio
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A short work that resembles an epic in all but length.
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(literature) A work in the mockheroic style.
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A basic unit of story, such as a character or a situation, used in the comparative analysis of folktales.
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A movement in literary theory that dominated American literary criticism in the middle of the 20th century, emphasizing close reading, particularly of poetry, to discover how a work functions as a self-contained, self-referential aesthetic object.
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(now rare, historical) Pertaining to magical signs or symbols.
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A satirist who employs Pantagruelism.
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Resembling or characteristic of a parable.
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(poetry, from Gerard Manley Hopkins' writings) Describing a style of poetry or language which can only be created by poets, but not in the language of inspiration.
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(rare) An inferior philologist.
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(philosophy) Love and study of learning and literature, broadly speaking.
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Any departure from convention or from factual accuracy taken by a writer to achieve a desired effect.
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Obsolete form of poetics. [(philosophy, literature) The theory of poetry, or of literature in general.]
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(philosophy, literature) The theory of poetry, or of literature in general.
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(rare) The study of proverbs; the collective lore of proverbs.
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Resembling or characteristic of a proverb.
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Writings falsely ascribed to famous persons (historical or mythical) to lend them greater legitimacy. They were typically composed many centuries after the ostensible author had died.
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(art) A form of cubism, in post-World War One Czechoslovakia, that employed more rounded forms
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A writer involved in the Haitian literary movement called spiralism.
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Alternative form of stanzaic [Of or pertaining to stanzas.]
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Of or pertaining to style, especially to linguistic or literary style.
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The phenomenon that poets are more susceptible to mental illness than other creative writers.
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(literature) Any relatively early text with fantastical elements, a precursor to fantasy as a genre.
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One who performs tarot readings; tarot reader.
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An approach to theology that likens the biblical narratives to dramas.
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The numerological study of the Greek and Hebrew text of the Christian Bible, based upon gematria and isopsephy, claimed to demonstrate the direct intervention of God in the writing of scripture.
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An interdisciplinary field of study that combines elements of poetic analysis, theology, and postmodern philosophy.
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(art) An American artistic style of the nineteenth century, characterised by landscapes with a misty atmosphere and dark, neutral hues.
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Art produced with real physical media, as opposed to digital art.
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obsession with being published or writing for publication
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A short-lived modernist movement in British art and poetry of the early 20th century, incorporating elements of cubism and futurism.
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A writer or other person who uses whimsy.
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