1. An outlook or system of thought attaching prime importance to human rather than divine or supernatural matters.

2. To carefully examine a text, or one element of a text, such as character, setting, plot, or theme of a story.

3. Consisting of many different and connected parts.

4. (Of a person or their judgment) not influenced by personal feelings or opinions in considering and representing facts.

5. The central topic a text treats.

6. "Dividing a line in the extreme and mean ratio" and to Renaissance artists. It is also called the Golden Section, Golden Ratio and the Golden Mean.

7. An approach to aesthetics that favors restraint, rationality, and the use of strict forms in literature, painting, architecture, and other arts. It flourished in ancient Greece and Rome, and throughout Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

8. A hierarchical structure of all matter and life, thought in medieval Christianity to have been decreed by God.

9. Act in such a way as to have an effect on another; act reciprocally.

10. Cause (something) to occur in a particular way; be the decisive factor in.

11. A report or description of an event or experience.

12. A book or other written or printed work, regarded in terms of its content rather than its physical form.

13. The doctrine that kings derive their authority from God, not from their subjects, from which it follows that rebellion is the worst of political crimes.