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Literary Terms and Definitions MLiterary. Terms and Definitions: MThis page is under perpetual. It was last updated September 1, 2. This list is meant to assist. Use it as a touchstone for important concepts. Vocabulary terms are listed. A]. [Y] [Z]MABINOGI (Welsh.

Four Branches"): The four branches or four parts of The. Mabinogion, a medieval collection of Welsh myths and. Celtic studies generally and in Arthurian. MACHIAVELLIAN. As an adjective, the word refers generally to sneaky, ruthless. The term originates. The Prince. This work was written. Niccoló Machiavelli, an early sixteenth- century.

Borgia family in Italy. Devil`S Due Full Movie Part 1 here. In contrast to the medieval ideal of the ruler as God's holy. Machiavelli stressed that.

He suggests that. Click. here for more information. MACHIEVELLE. (also spelled machiavel): A villain, especially an Italian.

Niccoló Machiavelli. See Machiavellian. The machievelle became a stock character in many. Renaissance. plays associated with sinister plots, blackest betrayal, and. Examples from Shakespeare include.

Richard. of Gloucester in Richard III and Edmund and Cornwall. King Lear. MACARONIC. TEXT: Any medieval or modern manuscript. Latin and. French. Latin and German- -is said to be macaronic. The mixture might. Examples from the Restoration.

Samuel Pepys' diary. Pepys frequently mingles Spanish and Latin words in the text. Cf. code- switching. MACROCOSM. (Cf. microcosm). The natural universe as a whole, including the biological realms.

See discussion under chain. MACROLOGIA (Grk. "big language" or "long language"): Also called macrology, in rhetoric, a negative term for a type of periphrasis involving unnecessary repetition of lengthy clauses. See discussion under periphrasis. MACRON. A diacritical mark in the form of a horizontal line indicating. MAENAD. Also known as bacchae or thyiads. Dionysus or. Bacchus.

In the mystery cult of. Dionysus. worshippers would get drunk on wine and then undergo an all- night. At the height of the frenzy, they believed that they would.

Dionysus/Bacchus, thus the common Latin name. Bacchus' name. In legendary accounts, such women were supernaturally strong. They would run through the forest naked. In literature, Euripides' tragedy. The. Bacchae is a dramatic retelling of.

Dionysiac rites in Greece. MAGIC. REALISM: In 1. Franz Roh. first applied the term "magic realism" (magischer.

Realismus in German) to a group of neue Saqchlichkeit painters. Munich (Cuddon 5. These painters blended realistic, smoothly painted, sharply. In the 1. 94. 0s and 1. Jorge. Luis Borges. Argentina. Gabriel Garcia Márquez in Colombia, and Alejo Carpentier.

Cuba. The influence also spread later to Günter Grass. Germany and John Fowles in England.

Abrams. 1. 35). These postmodern writers mingle and juxtapose realistic. Hemingway- esque detail. This mixture create.

An example of magic realism. Gabriel Garcia Márquez's short. A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings," a narrative. A neighbor identifies. Not having the heart to club the sickly.

The very premise of the story reveals much of the flavor. Cf. postmodernism. MAIAR: Semidivine spirits in Tolkien's Silmarillion. See discussion under Valar. MAJUSCULE: A large letter. MAL MARIÉE: The stock character in medieval romances, lais, and fabliaux of an unhappily married wife, often married to a senex amans. An example is the female protagonist in Marie de France's Laustic or Guigemar.

MALAPROPISM. Misusing words to create a comic effect or characterize. Typically, the malapropism involves the. For instance, in Richard Sheridan's The Rivals, we hear, "She's as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile." Dogberry. Watchman in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing says, "Comparisons. It shall be siffigance"- -both malapropisms. In Sheridan, we also find pineapple instead of pinnacle.

Twain's Huckleberry Finn how one. I was most putrified with astonishment". The best malapropisms sound. Cf. acyron. MALAYO- POLYNESIAN. Another term for Austronesian.

MANET / MANENT. Common Latin stage. Shakespearean. plays.

Manet is the singular for "He [or she]. Manent is the plural form for multiple individuals. Often the phrase is accompanied with explanatory remarks, such. Manent utras ("The others remain on. Manet solus ("He alone remains"). MANNER. OF ARTICULATION: In linguistics, how the speech organs. MANUSCRIPT. A text written by hand, as opposed to one printed with a printing.

Manus is Latin for "hand"; scriptum is. Latin participle for "written.") Early Egyptian manuscripts. Later, parchment.

In the. late Roman and early Patristic period, individual pages were. Paper as we know it became common in the Middle East.

Europe. By Shakespeare's. In medieval scholarship. MS" stands for manuscript, and British. MSS" for manuscripts.

TS" and "TSS"are the equivalent terms for. Some important medieval literary manuscripts.

Ellesmere. the Hengwyrt. Nowell. Codex. You can click here to see the first. Beowulf from the Nowell Codex. See also parchment.

MAQAMA. Picaresque. Arabic stories in rhymed prose. The two most famous writers. Abu al- Fadl Ahmed ibn al- Husian al Hamadhani and Abu. Mohammed al Qasim al- Hariri. MÄRCHEN. A technical German word used in folklore scholarship to refer. See discussion under fairy.

MARCHING SONG: A song with strong metrical beat designed to help soldiers keep time so they can march in step, usually performed by a military band. Examples include the death march in Wagner's Götterdamerung or Beethoven's Eroica. Tolkien has the Ents in The Lord of the Rings sing a tune matching the rhythmical constraints of a marching song as they head into war with Isengard in The Lord of the Rings (4.

Contrast with walking song. MARGINALIA. Drawings, notation, illumination, and doodles appearing in the. MARKED. WORD: A word that has some limitation or boundary in. Algeo points to the example. MARRIAGE. GROUP: A term coined by George L. Kittredge in 1. 91.

Chaucer's. Canterbury Tales. The marriage group includes "The.

Wife of Bath's Tale," "The Clerk's Tale," "The. Merchant's Tale," and "The Franklin's Tale.". All four narratives deal with the question of the proper relationship. The intervening tales of.

Friar, Summoner, and Squire serve as interruptions of this. Some critics. especially those who accept the "Bradshaw. Shift," argue that the marriage group also. Melibee," "The Man of Law's Tale,". The Nun's Priest's Tale."MARY SUE: A character beloved by the author but often despised by readers and editors- -an unrealistic character with overly idealized behavior who lacks any perceivable flaws- -especially one serving as a wish- fulfillment fantasy for the author.

This term is an eponym from a character in Paula Smith's 1. A Trekkie's Tale," and in subsequent decades became popular among editors in science- fiction publishing houses to refer to poorly written, annoying, and unlikely characters written by amateur authors.

MASCULINE. ENDING / MASCULINE RHYME: Rhymes that end with a heavy. See under. discussion of meter. MASHAL (plural. meshalim): In the Hebrew tradition. It denotes. "mysterious speech." Some of the Psalms, for instance. The New Testament Greek often translates the term as parabole or. This translation, however, causes some problem. In Greek. parabole are always allegorical and open to point- by- point.

Parabole were often used as a simple. The meshalim in. Hebrew, however, was often intentionally confusing or deliberately. Greek enigma (riddle). We can see this confusion in the New Testament, where Mark. Hebrew meshalim. In Mark, Jesus tells his disciples. The. secret of the kingdom of God has been given to you.

But to. those on the outside everything is said in parables so that. Mark 4: 1. 1- 1. 2). The common, modern. Christ uses parables for simple pedagogic purposes.

MASORETIC (from. Hebrew Masorah, "handed. The Masoretic texts are partly Hebrew and partly. Aramaic versions. Hebrew Bible (i. e., what Christians. Old Testament) with accompanying explanatory notes.

A group of Jewish scholars known as the Masoretes. Judaic biblical scholarship.

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