An Introduction to English Studies /
R.L. Brett.
- 2nd. ed.
- London : Edward Arnold, 1981.
- 88 p.
Appendix A: A select Glossary of Literary Terms not included in the text. Appendix B: The Wreck of the Deutschland by Gerard Manley Hopkins. - Index: p. 87.
1. Language as a literary Medium. - 2. The Chief Literary Forms: Epic, Mock-Epic, Tragedy, Comedy, the Novel. - 3. Figures of Meaning: Image, Metaphor and Simile, Personification, Symbol and Myth. - 4. Further Figures of Meaninig: Anthitesis, Paradox an Irony. - 5. Figures of Sound: Rhyme, Alliteration, Assonance and Consonance. - 6. The Elements of Prosody. - 7. Some Hints on Style. - 8. A note on Literary Criticism.