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Terms for subject
Literature
(1001 entries)
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.
enapalepsis
A type of repetition
(phrase or word)
with the repetition occurring at the beginning and again at the end of a sentence.
enclitic
Collocated to the end of another word, with a dependent meaning.
encyclical
Refers to a letter which is meant for a general audience.
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