 This order of words constitutes criticism's conceptual framework, its coordinating principle.The recurring primitive formulas Frye noticed in his survey of the "greatest classics" provide literature with an order of words, a "skeleton" which allows the reader "to respond imaginatively to any literary work by seeing it in the larger perspective provided by its literary and social contexts" (Hamilton 20).Frye identifies these formulas as the "conventional myths and metaphors" which he calls "archetypes" ("Spiritus Mundi" 118).