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The distinctive way that a writer uses language including such factors as word choice, sentence length, arrangement, and complexity, and the use of figurative language and imagery. First published fifty years ago, a glossary of literary terms remains an essential text for all serious students of literature. Geoffrey galt harpham first published fifty years ago, a glossary of literary terms remains an essential text for all serious students of literature. Abrams, was an american literary critic, known for works on romanticism, in particular his book the mirror and the lamp. He edited the oxford book of gothic tales 1992, and is the author of in frankensteins shadow 1987, criticism and literary theory 1890 to the present 1996, and other works of literary history.
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