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Terms for subject Literature (1061 entries)

early modern English	The English language from 1475 to 1700.Chaucer is before this period.
Earnest Hemingway	American writer and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.
echoic words	An onomatopoeic word or one which imitates natural sound.
eclipsis	Where parts of words are omitted.
eclogue	A poem in the form of a dialogue.
edition	A printed text, from which future re-printings or reissues are prepared. If there are considerable changes in further printings, the printing is called a 'second edition'. The printing details of a text are usually marked on one of the first few pages of the book.
Educational Librarian	EL
Educational Lieutenant Governor	ELG
Educational Vice President	EVP
Edwardian Period	The period in England when Edward VII was on the throne (1901- 10) i.e. generally between the death of Queen Victoria and the First World War.
elegy	A poem that mourns the death of an individual.
elision	The merging together of two syllables in a line e.g. "e'er" rather than 'ever'.
Elizabethan actors	The popular and regulary featured actors in Elizabethan theatre.
Elizabethan Period	The period of time which covers Queen Elizabeth I's reign, from 1558-1603. Shakespeare wrote his early works during the Elizabethan period.
Ellesmere manuscript	An illustrated (or illuminated) manuscript thought to date from the fifteenth century of Chaucer's, The Canterbury Tales.
ellipsis (plural, ellipses)	A rhetorical device where a word is omitted because it is implied by a previous clause.
Elohist text	A source of the Torah.
emblem	A symbol which is representative of something.
emotion	A conscious state of feeling created by the writer to convey joy, sorrow, love, hate etc to the reader. See mood, ambience and atmosphere
enallage	When one grammatical form is used in the place of another.