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31Pope, Alexander — born May 21, 1688, London, Eng. died May 30, 1744, Twickenham, near London English poet and satirist. A precocious boy precluded from formal education by his Roman Catholicism, Pope was mainly self educated. A deformity of the spine and other… …
32English literature — Introduction the body of written works produced in the English language by inhabitants of the British Isles (including Ireland) from the 7th century to the present day. The major literatures written in English outside the British Isles are… …
33Greek literature — Introduction body of writings in the Greek language, with a continuous history extending from the 1st millennium BC to the present day. From the beginning its writers were Greeks living not only in Greece proper but also in Asia Minor, the… …
34manners, comedy of — ▪ narrative genre witty, cerebral form of dramatic comedy that depicts and often satirizes the manners and affectations of a contemporary society. A comedy of manners is concerned with social usage and the question of whether or not… …
35pithy — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) , adj. concise; vigorous, forceful, powerful; meaningful; terse, brief, laconic. See meaning. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. succinct, terse, cogent, meaty, pointed, forcible, trenchant, pregnant, weighty,… …
36aphoristic — adjective 1. containing aphorisms or maxims axiomatic wisdom • Syn: ↑axiomatic • Pertains to noun: ↑axiom (for: ↑axiomatic) • Derivationally related forms: ↑ …
37apothegmatic — adjective 1. given to or characterized by terse apothegms • Syn: ↑apothegmatical • Pertains to noun: ↑apothegm (for: ↑apothegmatical), ↑apothegm • Derivationally related forms: ↑ …
38epigrammatism — ˌepəˈgraməˌtizəm noun ( s) Etymology: epigrammatic + ism : epigrammatic quality the playfulness and epigrammatism of the general style Jane Austen …
39ep|i|gram|mat|i|cal — «EHP uh gruh MAT uh kuhl», adjective. = epigrammatic. (Cf. ↑epigrammatic) …
40FABLE — FABLE, an animal tale (according to the most general and hence most widely accepted definition), i.e., a tale in which the characters are animals, and which contains a moral lesson. The genre also includes tales in which plants or inanimate… …
