Literary figures
allegory: The device of using character and/or story elements symbolically to represent an abstraction in addition to the literal meaning. In
some of these, for example, an author may intend the characters to personify an abstraction like hope or freedom. The meaning usually
deals with moral truth or a generalization about human existence.
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Idioms
Of means: having substantial resources; wealth
Custom: a traditional and widely accepted way of behaing or doing something that is specific to a particular society, place or time
Wealthy: having a great deal of money, resources, or assets; rich
Landed grentry: members of the aristocracy who owned much land
Burden: a wooden case used for transporting goods
Chance: a possibility of something happening
To last: continue for a specified period of time
To undertake: commit oneself
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The saussurean theory of language and its influence on a literary theory
Ferdinand de Saussure – Swiss linguist, a founder of modern structural linguistcs.
An attempt to apply to literature his methods and insights laid down in “Course in General
Linguistics” (1916) resulted in the emergance of a new movement in literary theories called
structuralism that flourished in the 1960s. Its ambition was to discover underlying structure of
literature; it tried to analyse literature in the most scientific and schematic way. A literary text was
for structuralists a structural whole
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