The Dutch word drop is liquorice or sweets in English and always with an adjective in front: fruit drops or cough drops. Droppings can only be used when you want to talk about dung or manure.
Ask an American or British colleague for a beamer and you are bound to receive raised eyebrows. A beamer is slang for a BMW. If a car is not what you require, you will have to use the term (computer) projector.
The antitype is the later correlative of the Old Testament figure, the type. The Old Testament type or figure is held to be a prophecy or promise of the higher truth that is "fulfilled" in the New Testament, according to a plan that is eternally present in the mind of God but manifests itself to ...
An alazon is one of the four stock characters whose interactions constitutes a standard plot in a play, an impostor and self-deceiving braggart. The other stock characters are the bomolochus, the eiron and the agroikos.
Ambiguity is applied to a fault in style, that is, the use of a vague or equivocal experssion when what is wanted is precision and particularity of reference. Alternative terms for this use of language are multiple meaning and plurisignation.
An authoritative argument or report serves to establish what counts as the true facts and values within the fictional world. This is the fashion inwhich many of the greatest novelists have written, including Fielding, Austen, Dickens, Makepeace Thackeray, Eliot, Hardy, Dostoevsky ad Tolstoy.
An aubade - from the old French "alba", meaning dawn - is an early morning song whose usual motif is an urgent request to the beloved to wake up. A familiar example is Shakespeare's "Hark, hark, the lark at heaven's gate sings."
The original Augustan Age was the brilliant literary period of Virgil, Horace and Ovidunder the Roman emperor Augustus (27 BC-AD 14. In the eigtheenth century and later, however, the term was frequently applied also to the literary period in England from approximately 1700 to 1745. Augustan ...
