Illustrated Dictionary of Literature

accent action Alexander Pope American artistic ballad bildungsroman century character characterised classical clude comedy couplet culture dactylic death drama dramatist early Edmund Spenser elegy English poet epic essay etry example expression famous feet fiction free verse French glish Greek Henry hyperbaton iambic irony James James Joyce John Joyce lables language Latin line of verse lished literal literary criticism lyric meaning metaphor meter metrical foot metrical foot consisting modern movement narrative narrator novel novelist Oscar Wilde pattern period person Pindaric plays playwright plot poem poetic poetry Prize prose published reader Renaissance rhyme royal rhyme scheme romantic satire sense sestet short stories social sonnet sound speech stanza stressed style syllables symbol T. S. Eliot term theatre theme Thomas tion tional tragedy ture typically usually Victorian W. H. Auden William Shakespeare's William Wordsworth writers written wrote