Lexicon

adj.

onei·​ric | \ ō-ˈnī-rik

: of or relating to dreams : DREAMY

n.

(also opusculum)

1. a small or minor literary or musical work

[Nicholson Baker — The Mezzanine]

n. 

Also: Ouzel

Parataxis (from Greek παράταξις “act of placing side by side”, from παρα para “beside” + τάξις táxis “arrangement”) is a literary technique, in writing or speaking, that favors short, simple sentences, without conjunctions or with the use of coordinating, but not with subordinating conjunctions. It contrasts with syntaxis and hypotaxis.

It is also used to describe a technique in poetry in which two images or fragments, usually starkly dissimilar images or fragments, are juxtaposed without a clear connection. Readers are then left to make their own connections implied by the paratactic syntax. Ezra Pound, in his adaptation of Chinese and Japanese poetry, made the stark juxtaposition of images an important part of English-language poetry.

Julius Caesar’s declaration, “I came, I saw, I conquered,” is an example of parataxis.

[Funny Weather — Olivia Laing]

Also: passe-partout

n.

1. picture or photograph simply mounted between a piece of glass and a sheet of cardboard (or two pieces of glass) stuck together at the edges with adhesive tape
2. a master key

[Wildwood — Roger Deakin]

noun

1. the concluding part of a speech, typically intended to inspire enthusiasm in the audience: he again invoked the theme in an emotional peroration.

[“The Island” — Lord Byron]

noun

1. Light and slightly contemptuous mockery or banter

[The Art of Memoir – Mary Karr]

adj.

1. Holding tenaciously or stubbornly to a purpose, opinion, or course of action.
2. Extremely persistent or unyielding.

[Moby-Dick; or, The Whale — Herman Melville]

n.

1. a substance supposed by 18th-century chemists to exist in all combustible bodies, and to be released in combustion.

[A Reader on Reading, “The Blind Bookkeeper” — Alberto Manguel]