Minimalism describes movements in various forms of art and design, especially visual art and music, where the work is set out to expose the essence, essentials or. Kilauea Mount Etna Mount Yasur Mount Nyiragongo and Nyamuragira Piton de la Fournaise Erta Ale. Tracking the storm that has disrupted power and transportation for millions of people in more than a halfdozen states, leaving behind the daunting task of. Download the free trial version below to get started. Doubleclick the downloaded file to install the software. 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 ZMABINOGI 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. Niccol Machiavelli, an early sixteenth century. Borgia family in Italy. In contrast to the medieval ideal of the ruler as Gods holy. Machiavelli stressed that. He suggests that. Click. here for more information. MACHIEVELLE. also spelled machiavel A villain, especially an Italian. Niccol 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. Aaron Copland At The River Pdf Viewer' title='Aaron Copland At The River Pdf Viewer' />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. Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky k n d n s k i Russian, Vasiliy Vasilyevich Kandinskiy. Viagens e turismo Minube uma comunidade de viajantes e turistas onde inspirarse sobre destinos e partilhar as suas viagens. If you are a teacher searching for educational material, please visit PBS LearningMedia for a wide range of free digital resources spanning preschool through 12th grade. Get inspiration for you next vacation, plan your trip and choose the places you cant miss, then share your experiences with other travelers. This webpage is for Dr. Wheelers literature students, and it offers introductory survey information concerning the literature of classical China, classical Rome. 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. DionysusBacchus, 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 Mrquez in Colombia, and Alejo Carpentier. Cuba. The influence also spread later to Gnter 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 Mrquezs 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 Tolkiens Silmarillion. See discussion under Valar. MAJUSCULE A large letter. MAL MARIE 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 Frances Laustic or Guigemar. MALAPROPISM. Misusing words to create a comic effect or characterize. Typically, the malapropism involves the. For instance, in Richard Sheridans The Rivals, we hear, Shes as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile. Microsoft Works 4 5 Oem Kawasaki. Dogberry. Watchman in Shakespeares Much Ado About Nothing says, Comparisons. It shall be siffigance both malapropisms. In Sheridan, we also find pineapple instead of pinnacle. Twains 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 Shakespeares. In medieval scholarship. MS stands for manuscript, and British. MSS for manuscripts. TS and TSSare 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. MRCHEN. 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 Wagners Gtterdamerung or Beethovens 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. Chaucers. Canterbury Tales. The marriage group includes The. Wife of Baths Tale, The Clerks Tale, The. Merchants Tale, and The Franklins 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 Laws Tale,. The Nuns Priests 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 Smiths 1. A Trekkies 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. CE with. a. few late additions in the tenth century.