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| Unrhymed iambic pentameter |
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| A pause, metaphoric or rhetorical, occurring somewhere in a line of poetry. |
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| A line that has a natural pause at the end. |
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| The running over of a sentence or though into the next couplet or line without a pause at the ned of the line. |
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| Two lines of rhyming iambic pentameter. |
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| Teh basic unit of mater consisting of a group of two or three syllables. [types = stressed syllable & unstressed] |
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| A narrative structure that provides a setting and exposition for the main narrative in a novel. |
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| Verse that has neither rgular rhyme nor regular meter. Free verse often use cadances rather than uniform metrical feet. |
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| The rhythmic pattern produced when words are arranged so that their stressed and unstressed syllables fall into a more or less regular sequence, resulting in repeated patterns of accent. |
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| A fourteen line poem, usually in iambic pentameter, with a varied line scheme. |
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| A metrical pattern in poetry which consists of five iambic feet per line. (An iamb, or iambic foot, consists of one unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.) |
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Three quatrains and a couplet.
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| Divided into an octave and a sestet, the octave opening the poem and presenting a problem in its eight lines, and he sestet concluding the poem in its six lines. |
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| A repetition of consonants, especially at the end of a sentence. |
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| Use of the same constant at the beginning of each word. |
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| A figurative work in which a surface narrative actually carries a secondary, symbolic or metaphorical meaning. |
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| A moral fable, usually featuring personified animals or inanimate objects which act like people to allow the author to comment on the human condition. |
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| The repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words |
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| To put close together, to place side by side. |
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| A work designed to ridicule a style, literary form, or subject matter either by treating the exalted in a trivial way or by treating the trivial in an exhalted way (mock dignity) |
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| An elaborate, usually intellectually ingenious poetic comparison or image. [ie: an analogy or metaphor in which, say a beloved is compared to ship, planet, etc.] |
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| anti-utopian novel where, instead of paradise, everything has gone wrong in an attempt to create a perfect society. |
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| An extended narrative poem recounting actions, travels, adventures, and heroic episodes and written in high style. |
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| A novel consisting of letters written by a character or several characters. |
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| The substition of a mild or less negative word or phrase for a harsh or blunt one [ie: passed away instead of died] |
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| A novel from teh existentialist viewpoint, often pointing out the absurdity and meaninglessness of existence. |
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| In general, a gentler, more good humored and sympathetic kind of satire, somewhat tolerant of human folly even while laughing at it. |
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| Speech or writing that abuses, denounces, or attacks. It can be directed against a person, cause, idea, or system. It employs a heavy use of negative emotive language. |
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| A mode of expression, through words or events conveying a reality different from and usually opposite to appearance or expectation. [an incongruity or discordance between what one says or does and what one means or what is generally understood] |
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| Harsher more pointed satire, often attacking particular people, sometimes thinly disguised as fictional characters. |
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| A crude, coarse, often bitter satire ridiculing the personal appearance or character of a person. |
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| A satiric imitation of a work or fan author with the idea of ridiculing the author, his ideas, or his work. |
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| The kind of ingenious metaphor popular in Renaissance English sonnets. |
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| Words intended to belittle a person or idea and arouse contemptuous laughter. |
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| A form of sneering criticism in which disapproval is often expressed as ironic praise. |
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| A literary mode based on criticism of people and society through ridicule, often as an intended means of provoking or preventing change. |
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| A writer's attitude towards his readers and his subject; his mood or moral view. |
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| A work that treats a serious subject frivolously - ridiculing the dignified. |
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| How fully the characetrs and actions in a work conform to our sense of reality. [High Verisimilitude means a work is very realisitc and believable] |
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