A Handbook to Literature, Volume 10

ACCENT action American BALLAD Ben Jonson Bible BOOK SIZE born cæsura called character classical COMEDY COMEDY OF MANNERS critical developed DRAMA DRAMATIC STRUCTURE early effect eighteenth century elements Eliot Elizabethan emotional employed England English literature ENGLISH Outline EPIC ESSAY example expression famous FICTION French Greek Henry human I. A. Richards IAMBIC PENTAMETER idea imitation James John language Latin Le Morte Darthur lines Literary History LYRIC meaning medieval METER metrical MIDDLE ENGLISH modern moral MORALITY PLAY movement NARRATIVE nature nineteenth century NOVEL Outline of Literary PASTORAL pattern period phrase PICARESQUE NOVEL plays PLOT Poems poetic poetry poets popular printed prose qualities reader realistic religious RENAISSANCE rhetorical RHYME RHYTHM romantic ROMANTICISM SATIRE scene sense seventeenth Shakespeare SHORT STORY sometimes song SONNET speech STANZA stressed STYLE syllables T. S. Eliot term applied theater Thomas tion tradition TRAGEDY TROCHEE usually VERSE William words writers written