Hamilton, Essential Literary Terms

"The paradox reflects the peculiar nature of coherence, which is not an absolute, but a dependent quality" (Hirsch 24).

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AngelaPalumbo/2009/02/whats_that_mean_again.html

"It is interesting to contrast Empson's famous 'ambiguities' with New Criticism's 'paradox, 'irony' and 'ambivalence' (Eagleton 45). Click here!

Brushing Up on Symbolism
“It is mainly from this era, in the work of Kant, Hegel, Schiller, Coleridge, and others, that we inherit our contemporary ideas of the ‘symbol’ and ‘aesthetic experience’…” (Eagleton 18).
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/GretaCarroll/2009/02/brushing_up_on_symbolism.html

Periphrasis-Sounds Serious
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JennaMiller/2009/02/periphrasis-sounds-serious.html

Periphrasis according to Hamilton allows a narrator to use their vocabulary to its fullest extent. The man died, and he passed away, and he went on, and he bought the farm, and he is poking up daisys, and he is an angel. All say the same thing, but the repetition is not there.

"Thou still unravished bride of quietness, Thou foster child of silence and slow time."

"In the opening lines of John Keats's "Ode on a Grecian Urn" the narrator uses assonance in apostrophizing the work of art."

“Atmosphere, a term taken from meteorology, means the predominant mood or town in all or part of a literary work,” (Hamilton 89)

"Anaphora is the intentional repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of successive lines, stanzas, sentences, or paragraphs. It is used frequently in both poetry and prose to create emphasis..." (Hamilton 64).

Apostrophe (a-POS-troh-fee) an address to a dead person or absent person or to an inanimate object or abstract concept. (Hamilton 62)

It's all about me.

Eagleton writes, “In England, a crassly philistine utilitarianism is rapidly becoming the dominant ideology of the industrial middle class, fetishizing fact, reducing human relations to market exchanges and dismissing art as unprofitable ornamentation” (17).
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/EricaGearhart/2009/02/thank_goodness_we_have_hamilto.html

A little outside of the box...like not in the literary terms book!
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/BethanyMerryman/2009/02/schema-what.html

"It is interesting to contrast Empson's 'ambiguities' with New Criticism's 'paradox,' 'irony,' and 'ambivalence,'" (Eagleton 45).
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/BethanyBouchard/2009/02/less_is_more_or_so_they_say.html