A movement begun late in the nineteenth century, especially as embodied in the Gaelic League, founded by Douglas Hyde in 1893, which aimed at the preservation of the Gaelic language.

A word or phrase or idiom characteristic of the French language, or a custom or turn of thought suggestive of the French people.

since the natives of Gascony (in France) were considered inveterate boasters, gasconade came to be used to mean Genre bravado or boastful talk

A group of leaves in a book cut from a single printer s sheet after it has been folded. A folio makes a gathering of two leaves or four pages, a quarto one of four leaves or eight pages

A general term refers to a group, a class, a type, whereas a specific word refers to a member of that group, class, or type.

A term used in literary criticism to designate the distinct types or categories into which literary works are grouped according to FORM or technique or, sometimes, subject matter.

A term employed by Addison to characterize such early eighteenth-century comedyas Cibbers The Careless Hus- band. This COMEDY was a sort of continuation of the Restoration COMEDY OF MANNERS,

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Literature G

Term	Definition
Gaelic Movement	A movement begun late in the nineteenth century, especially as embodied in the Gaelic League, founded by Douglas Hyde in 1893, which aimed at the preservation of the Gaelic language.
Gallicism	A word or phrase or idiom characteristic of the French language, or a custom or turn of thought suggestive of the French people.
Gasconade	since the natives of Gascony (in France) were considered inveterate boasters, gasconade came to be used to mean Genre bravado or boastful talk
Gathering	A group of leaves in a book cut from a single printer s sheet after it has been folded. A folio makes a gathering of two leaves or four pages, a quarto one of four leaves or eight pages
General Terms	A general term refers to a group, a class, a type, whereas a specific word refers to a member of that group, class, or type.
Genre	A term used in literary criticism to designate the distinct types or categories into which literary works are grouped according to FORM or technique or, sometimes, subject matter.
Genteel Comedy	A term employed by Addison to characterize such early eighteenth-century comedyas Cibbers The Careless Hus- band. This COMEDY was a sort of continuation of the Restoration COMEDY OF MANNERS,
Genteel Tradition:
Georgian
Georgici
Gest
Gestalt
Ghost-writer
Gift-Books:
Gleeman
Gloss
Gnomic
Goliardic Verse

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