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A movement within Russian Futurism with practice of zaum, the experimental visual and sound poetry [77][78][79] David Burliuk, Velimir Khlebnikov, Aleksei Kruchyonykh, Vladimir Mayakovsky. Ego-Futurism. A school within Russian Futurism based on a personality cult [77][80] Igor Severyanin, Vasilisk Gnedov. Acmeism.
The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald.Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, near New York City, the novel depicts first-person narrator Nick Carraway's interactions with Jay Gatsby, the mysterious millionaire with an obsession to reunite with his former lover, Daisy Buchanan.
Poetic devices. Poetic devices are a form of literary device used in poetry. Poems are created out of poetic devices via a composite of: structural, grammatical, rhythmic, metrical, verbal, and visual elements. [1] They are essential tools that a poet uses to create rhythm, enhance a poem's meaning, or intensify a mood or feeling.
Reader-response criticism. Two Girls Reading by Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Reader-response criticism is a school of literary theory that focuses on the reader (or "audience") and their experience of a literary work, in contrast to other schools and theories that focus attention primarily on the author or the content and form of the work.
The literary concept of the sublime emerged in the seventeenth century from its use in alchemy, [3] and acquired importance in the eighteenth century. Its development during this period is shown in the work of James Beattie's Dissertations Moral and Critical, which explored the origin of the term. [4] The sublime is also associated with the ...
Zooming is a writing skill, as outlined in secondary education, [1] that gives the reader the feeling of moving through space towards or away from a character or object, especially used in descriptive writing. It can be divided into two types: zooming in and zooming out. The idea of zooming finds and analog in the cinematic technique of the ...
Glossary of literary terms. This glossary of literary terms is a list of definitions of terms and concepts used in the discussion, classification, analysis, and criticism of all types of literature, such as poetry, novels, and picture books, as well as of grammar, syntax, and language techniques.
Literary theory is the systematic study of the nature of literature and of the methods for literary analysis. [1] Since the 19th century, literary scholarship includes literary theory and considerations of intellectual history, moral philosophy, social philosophy, and interdisciplinary themes relevant to how people interpret meaning. [1]