"The sense that more is meant than meets the ear in romance comes very largely from the reverberations that its familiar conventions set up within our literary experience, like a shell that contains the sound of the sea." Frye (page 59)
Fatwa: islamic symbol on forehead
Archetype: very typical example of a certain thing
Signature: individual characteristics that you bring to thing that doesn't change
Illo-Tempore: in the beginning
Senex: an old man as a stock figure in comedy
Naive: lacking knowledge
Sparagmos: dismemberment of a victim; forming part of ancient rituals and represented in Greek myths and trajedies
Chaste Group: abstain from all sexual intercourse; pure
Vulgar: lacking taste; dull
Ekphrasis: encountering in literature another work of art
Newtgangrage: varmint; bug
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