Freytag

[ frahy-tahk ]

/ ˈfraɪ tɑk /

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noun

Gus·tav

[goos-tahf], /ˈgʊs tɑf/, 1816–95, German novelist, playwright, and journalist.

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How to use Freytag in a sentence

As for the worthy Freytag, he felicitated himself highly on the way he had handled that dabbler in poeshy.
Historical Tales, Vol 5 (of 15)|Charles Morris
Freytag assigns to the second act, as a rule, the Steigerung or heightening--the working-up, one might call it--of the interest.
Play-Making|William Archer
In discussing what Freytag calls the erregende Moment, we might have defined it as the starting-point of the tension.
Play-Making|William Archer
Our fellow traveller, brother Freytag has his bed at present upon a heap of shavings.
The Moravians in Labrador|Anonymous

Kreuzburg, which became a town in 1252, was the birthplace of the novelist Gustav Freytag.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 15, Slice 8|Various

British Dictionary definitions for Freytag

Freytag

/ (German ˈfraitaːk) /

noun

Gustav (ˈɡʊstaf). 1816–95, German novelist and dramatist; author of the comedy Die Journalisten (1853) and Soll und Haben (1855), a novel about German commercial life

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