A Writer's Guide to Literature

analysis Aristotle aspect attitude audience Chapter character Charles Lamb comedy comma composition contrast critical definition devices didacticism drama Duke E. B. White effect elements Émile Zola emphasis epic essay example explain expression facts feel fiction free verse genre Glossary human humor I. A. Richards illustrate important instance instructor John Crowe Ransom Joseph Wood Krutch kind King Claudius language lines literary literature lyric meaning mind Miss Brill narrator nature novel observe paper paragraph paraphrase passage phrase play pleasure plot poem poet poetry point of view précis problems prose Prosody purpose question quotation marks reader reading assignment rhyme romanticism scene sentence Shakespeare short story simply sonnet specific stanza statement structure student style subject matter symbols T. S. Eliot term theme things thought tion topic assertion tragedy truth unity verse words writing