a book whore's haven

1. text post  5 / 20 / 2011

   40 literary terms you should know

   readingisforlovers:

    

   1. Aphorism
   2. Apostrophe
   3. Applicability
   4. Bete noire
   5. Bildungsroman
   6. Bowdlerize
   7. Byronic hero
   8. Caesura
   9. Death of the author
   10. Denouement
   11. Didactic
   12. Epigraph
   13. Epistolary
   14. Fin de siecle
   15. Foil
   16. Hamartia
   17. Heresy of paraphrase
   18. Hubris
   19. Humours
   20. In medias res
   21. Intertextuality
   22. Irony
   23. Literary agent hypothesis
   24. Magic realism
   25. Malapropism
   26. Meiosis
   27. Meta
   28. Mise en scene
   29. Picaresque
   30. Purple prose
   31. Roman a clef
   32. Scene a faire
   33. Sobriquet
   34. Syllogism
   35. Synecdoche
   36. Tranche de vie
   37. Trope
   38. Ubi sunt
   39. Unreliable narrator
   40. Verisimilitude

       → definitions

   (Source: nevver, via )

2. photo post  5 / 20 / 2011
   

   my own collection of books. :D

3. text post  5 / 20 / 2011

   Books are a passport (that’s free) to another world, and I can stay there as long as I want to.

4. photo post  5 / 20 / 2011
   

   fuckyeahbooks:

   Simple. Genius.

5. text post  5 / 20 / 2011

   If you haven’t heard from me in a few days, I’m probably lost in a book… Please don’t come looking for me I will be fine. :)

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   fuckyeahbooks:

   Curtain of books.

   (I wish I knew where this came from originally.)

   hellyaeh:

   vi syntes det er okay at vide hvad man går ind til