LITERATURE QUESTIONS
LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM
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Puerility
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High flown ornamentation
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Lasting memory
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Frigidity
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Detailed explanation-1: -Frigidity is a characteristic that Longinus sees as an enemy of sublime literature. Writers achieve frigidity when, while they “aim at the uncommon and elaborate and most of all at the attractive, they drift unawares into the tawdry and affected.
Detailed explanation-2: -There are 2 factors that affect sublimation. Temperature and Pressure. In order to make something sublime, you need to have low pressures and high temperatures.
Detailed explanation-3: -The following factors, are described to mention how they cause sublime to be false:, Conceit of turgidity: It is a type of timidity or bombasting use of language, , which he thinks, is drier than dropsy /oedema., Puerility: The use of puerility spoils the sublimity.
Detailed explanation-4: -Tumidity; Puerility; and. Parenthyrsus.