Anagram

An anagram is a type of word play, the result of rearranging the letters of a word or phrase to produce a new word or phrase, using all the original letters exactly once; e.g., ...

anagram

Literature; General literature

A word or phrase made from the letters of another word or phrase, as "heart" is an anagram of "earth." Anagrams have often been considered merely an exercise of one’s ingenuity, ...

anagram

Language; Dictionaries

Literally, the letters of a word read backwards, but in its usual wider sense, the change or one word or phrase into another by the transposition of its letters. Thus Galenus ...

anagram

Language; General language

A reordering of the letters of a word or phrase that results in a new word or phrase being formed.

die poesie

Literature; Literary terms

Die Poesie ist fuer die Romantiker eine progressive Universalpoesie. Sie vereinigt alle Gattungen und sie ist lebendig und gesellig. Nur sie kann das Leben romantisieren, denn sie ...

die einbildungskraft

Literature; Literary terms

Die Symbole und Geheimnisse der Natur koennen nur mit der Einbildungskraft entdeckt und versteht werden. Sie erlaubt dem Kuenstler, die Wahrheit hinter den Schein zu sehen und ...

argument

Literature; Literary terms

An argument is a statement by the narrator in which he invokes a muse or guiding spirit to inspire him in his great undertaking and then to address to the muse his epic ...

applied criticism

Literature; Literary terms

Applied criticism, or practical criticism, concerns itself with the discussion of particular works and writers. In an applied critique, the theoretical principles controlling the ...

aside

Literature; Literary terms

In an aside a character expresses to the audience his or her thought or intention in a short speech which, by convention, is inaudible to the other characters on the stage. This ...

Augustan Age

Literature; Literary terms

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, ...