NTC's Dictionary of Literary Terms

I bought this book for my class. My professor changed book at the last minute and suggested us to get the NTC. I must be honest and say that this dictionary is just awesome. It is helping me a lot in my literature/English class. All the literary terms in this dictionary are perfectly detailed and providing examples to have a better understanding of the word. This dictionary is going to become my BFF in the years to come as I continue my education.

The title of this book explains it in less words than I will use to describe it. If you've always wondered what a prose poem is or foreshadowing or characterization this is the book to get. As a budding writer or mature writer this book is both a teaching tool and a refresher course. Written by Kathleen Morner and Ralph Rausch it is a comprehensive and easy-to-understand reference to critical and literary terms. From: "absurd, the theatre of" to "zeitgeist" writers as well as readers will find this book helpful in understanding and appreciating literature.

I have a number dictionaries of literary terms and this one is topnotch. I refer to it often, even though I haven't set foot in a literature class in over 44 years. You can take the boy out of the UCLA English Department, but you can't take the English Department out of the boy.

Not the best of literary dictionaries. One would be better off going with Oxford; it contains more terms and explanations. It's good to have more than one dictionary for literary terms, but this is my least favorite.

I used it to help me pass the Praxis II, and I've used it in several lesson plans that I've written. The definitions are extremely understandable, and all are correct. The book is appropriately annotated, and thoughtfully composed.

I appreciate the book's quality and prompt shipment.

Indispensible! Great gift for newly certified English teachers.

This is required for my son's advanced placement English class and I have been reading it for my own curiosity. It is an intelligent explanation of terms that describe literary works (books, plays, poems, reports, etc). Terms that are harder to grasp are treated in more detail and with examples so you don't have to look any further to know what they mean. Some terms I've seen all my life and never really understood are now completely clear. The English language is an amazingly powerful way to communicate and this little digest adds enormously to your English skills.