Latin literary phrases

plot device

thumb|upright=1.2|Decorated incipit page to the Gospel of Matthew, 1120–1140

A postscript (P.S., PS., or PS) may be a sentence, a paragraph, or occasionally many paragraphs added, often hastily and incidentally, after the signature of a letter or (sometimes) the main body of an essay or book. For such longer works it may also be known as an afterword or subscription. The term comes from the Latin "post scriptum", an expression meaning "written after" (which may be interpreted in the sense of "that which comes after the writing").

narrative that opens mid-plot, or 'in the middle of things'

Italian and Latin phrase

adverb meaning "from the beginning"

Latin term meaning "from the beginning"

Latin expression

rhetorical technique

Latin abbreviation

Latin phrase

no day without a single line

the last lines of a work

latin phrase meaning "man of one book"

principle of textual criticism

Latin expression meaning by one's own hand

footnote or endnote term

conversational literary device

principle in textual criticism

latin phrase used figuratively to mean "gradual progress towards mastery"