Cosmo Dictionary of Literary Terms

The terms and concepts that have stimulated literary thinkers come to life in this most comprehensive, authoritative, and up-to-date dictionary of Literary Terms available. Ideal for students and writers, teachers and readers, it provides compact information on modern schools of literary theory and offers extensive coverage of traditional drama, versification, rhetoric, and literary history, this informative and entertaining dictionary provides succinct explanations of potentially troublesome terms, from absurd to zeugma.