Concise Handbook of Literary And Rhetorical Terms

The Concise Handbook of Literary and Rhetorical Terms is a must-have reference, providing concise, yet clear definitions of nearly 1700 terms with examples from over 700 authors and literary works terms grouped into logical categories, making it easier for finding similar concepts faster; categories include Genres, Literary Periods and Movements, Literary Criticism, Figures of Speech, Rhetorical Terms, Syntax, Sound Devices, Word Forms, Elements of Language, Literature, Poetry and Drama, Book and Text Features, Abbreviations and Symbols pronunciations for over 700 terms whose pronunciation is not self-evident or well-established terms you won't find in many other sources, like eggcorn, found poem, jumped the shark, McOndo, mondegreen, retronym, schadenfreude, snowclone, and treppenwitz accurate distinctions between similar terms, like metonymy/synecdoche, pleonasm/tautology, and syllepsis/zeugma relevant examples to illustrate most concepts, from notable historical figures, such as Plato and Shakespeare, to contemporary personalities, like Stephen Colbert and Barack Obama a user-friendly layout that facilitates fast access and provides space for annotations