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Literature
9th Grade
02/04/2014

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Plot
Definition
The main events of a story,novel, or a movie
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subplot
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a secondary plot within a piece of literature that accompanies the main plot yet is lesser in importance
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surprise ending
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A plot twist is a radical change in the expected direction or outcome of the plot of a novel
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exposition
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the part of a story's plot that introduces the reader to the setting, characters situation
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plot twist
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plot development that violates the readers expectations
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inciting incident
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the incident that sets the events of the conflict in motion
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rising action
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the events that follow the inciting incident and lead up to the crisis of a story
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rising action
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th events that follow the inciting incident and lead up to the crisis
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crisis
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the major turning point for the ain character
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climax
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the pint at which the plot reaches the moment of highest emotional intensity
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faliing action
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the events that unfold the results of the crisis and lad to the conclusion
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denouement
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the final part of a play, movie which the strands of the plot are drawn together and matters are resolved
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chronological order
Definition
order in which events happen
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flashback
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reference to events that occurred before the action of the main story
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verse form
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specific combinations of rhyme and meter
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rhyme
Definition
identical sounds in the last stressed vowel and all of the sounds following that vowel and two or more words
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perfect rhyme
Definition
rhyme in which different consonants are followed by identical vowel and consonant sounds, such as in moon and June
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slant rhyme
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rhyme between two words with similar but slightly misattatched sounds
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eye rhyme
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spelled alike but pronounced different
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end rhyme
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occurs at the end of corresponding lines of poetry
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internal rhyme
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occurs between words within a single line of poetry
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rhyme scheme
Definition
pattern of rhyme sounds in a poem or in a stanza of poetry
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onomatopoeia
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the use of words that sound like what they mean
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assonance
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repetition of similar vowel sounds in a series of words
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alliteration
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repetition of terminal consonant sounds
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meter
Definition
regular arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables
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scansion
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the process of identifying the two major features of meter in a particular poem
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poetic foot
Definition
the specific combination of two or three stressed and/or unstressed syllables that predominantly repeats throughout the poem lines
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iambic foot
Definition
poetic foot that contains on unstressed and then one stressed
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trochaic foot
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combines a stressed than an unstressed
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anapestic foot
Definition
see dactylic foot and dimeter
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sporadic foot
Definition
poetic foot that repeats two stressed
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pyrrhic foot
Definition
poetic foot that has two unstressed
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iambic pentameter
Definition
meter with 5 iambs in each line
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verse
Definition
composition written in meter
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rhymed verse
Definition
having end rhyme and regular meter
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blank verse
Definition
unrhymed iambic pentameter
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free verse
Definition
poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter
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stanza
Definition
a group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem; a verse
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ballad
Definition
a poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas
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refrain
Definition
A phrase, verse, or group of verses repeated at intervals throughout a song or poem, especially at the end of each stanza
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sonnet
Definition
a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line.
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Italian sonnet
Definition
a sonnet consisting of an octave with the rhyme pattern abbaabba, followed by a sestet with the rhyme pattern cdecde or cdcdcd
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english sonnet
Definition
a sonnet consisting three quatrains and a concluding couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme pattern abab cdcd efef gg
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haiku
Definition
a Japanese poem of seventeen syllables, in three lines of five, seven, and five
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cinquain
Definition
a five-line stanza
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shaped poem
Definition
poem that is in a certain pattern, normally following what the story line is about
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anaphora
Definition
repetition of a word or words at the beginning of two or more successive phrases, verses, clauses
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parallelism
Definition
he use of successive verbal constructions in poetry or prose that correspond in grammatical structure, sound, meter, meaning, etc.
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chiasmus
Definition
a rhetorical or literary figure in which words, grammatical constructions, or concepts are repeated in reverse order
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The poem: Allen-a-dale
Definition
- the blue vault of heaven is his home
- the mother and father cry because their daughter moves out to be with allen-a-dale
- 1st paragraph is AABBCC
- 2nd paragraph is DDEECC
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The poem: Futility
Definition
- Setting is the battlefield
- The sun usually wakens the poems subject
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iambic foot
Definition
unstressed/ stressed syllables
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trochaic foot
Definition
stressed/ unstressed syllables
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anapestic foot
Definition
2 unstressed/ 1 stressed
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dactylic foot
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1 stressed/ 2 unstressed
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spondaic foot
Definition
2 stressed
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pyhrric foot
Definition
2 unstressed
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monometer
Definition
one foot
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diameter
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two feet
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trimeter
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three feet
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tetrameter
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4 feet
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pentameter
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5 feet
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iambic pentameter
Definition
5 iambic feet- most common
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The poem: The eagle
Definition
- 1st verse: iambic pentameter
- personifies the eagle
- describes the eagles action
- pictures the majestic eagle
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The poem: Julius Caesar( blank verse)
Definition
- iambic pentameter
- death is a necessary end
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The poem: Splinter( Free verse)
Definition
- the frost is the setting
- compares voice of the last cricket to a person farewell
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Types of stanzas.
Definition
-Couplet- 2 lines
-quatrain- 4 lines
-sestet- 6 lines
-octave- 8 lines
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The poem: Bonnie George Campbell(ballad)
Definition
- set in the Scottish highlands
- its written in a quatrain
- he uses repetition to highten the drama
- mom and wife are looking for him
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*Holy sonnet 10
Definition
- author is speaking TO death as it is alive
- all people die; death has no reason to be proud
- rest is a picture of death
- deaths companions are poison, war, and sickness
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*sonnet 29
Definition
- the writer would not change his place the life with kings
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Types of cinguan
Definition
- 1 line: 1 stressed
- 2 line: 2 stressed
- 3 line: 3 stressed
- 4 line: 4 stressed
- 5 line: 1 stressed
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The poem: November night(cinquan)
Definition
- describes the fall of the year and the leaves falling off the trees
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*400 meter freestyle (shaped)
Definition
- author writes about the swiftness of the swimmer
- the shape reminds the reader of a long swim back and forth in a pool
- lungs and heart are usually strained during the swim
- ends with time of 4:25.9
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The poem: Altar (shaped)
Definition
- compares the heart to a stone and broken altar
- stones of the altar will not cease to praise him
- herbert chose a poem altar, so that his written words would always be praising god even when he wasnt
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imagery
Definition
descriptive words or phrases used to create an impression
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irony
Definition
use of language to convey meaning other than what is stated or contradiction in what is expected to happen and what actually happens
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metaphor
Definition
an expression of one thing in terms of another
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simile
Definition
comparison of two unlike objects using oras
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