title: Literary Terms: A Practical Glossary (The Ncte Chalkface Series)
author:  Brian Moon 
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  **SHAPES OF CLAY**
  
  
  
  
  
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  **AMBROSE BIERCE**
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  **DEDICATION.**
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  **WITH PRIDE IN THEIR WORK, FAITH IN THEIR FUTURE AND AFFECTION FOR
  THEMSELVES, AN OLD WRITER DEDICATES THIS BOOK TO HIS YOUNG FRIENDS AND PUPILS,
  GEORGE STERLING AND HERMAN SCHEFFAUER. A.B.**
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  **PREFACE.**
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Some small part of this book being personally censorious, and in that part the
  names of real persons being used without their assent, it seems fit that a few
  words be said of the matter in sober prose. What it seems well to say I have
  already said with sufficient clarity in the preface of another book, somewhat
  allied to this by that feature of its character. I quote from "Black Beetles
  in Amber:"
  
  
  "Many of the verses in this book are republished, with considerable
  alterations, from various newspapers. Of my motives in writing and in now
  republishing