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| Repetition of the same consonant sound at the beginning of successive words (round and round the rugged rocks) |
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| A letdown used for the effect of humor or contrast |
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| Way of addressing s.o./s.t. invisible or not usually spoken to |
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| Repetition of the same vowel sound (“all the awful auguries,” “eyes like sapphires shining bright”) |
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| Best-known one-line pattern in English: unrhymed iambic pentameter |
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| A harsh sounding words or phrase (“grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw), like your lips/teeth/tongue have to work to say it |
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| Rhythmic flow of a sequence of sounds or words |
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| Any pause in a line of poetry after any word in the line, occurs at a mark of punctuation |
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| In drama (esp. Shakespeare), the last act. |
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| Purging of pity and fear felt by audience (usually Greek) |
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| Language used that is more informal (slangy/”normal”) than formal |
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| Passages of clownish humor (in the midst of drama) e.g. Hamlet and the gravediggers. |
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| Elaborate comparisons (My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun) |
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| The ending of a story; decisive ending |
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| A character wants something, something/someone is in the way |
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| Meaning that is figurative/symbolic (opposite of denotation-dictionary definition) |
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| Rhymed words/phrases have the same beginning and ending consonant sounds but different vowels (chitter/chatter) |
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| Literary device employing repetition so as to stress the theme of a work or a particular symbol |
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| Two successive rhyming lines |
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| A three syllable foot consisting a heavy stress with two lights (notable, parable, terrible) |
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| Dictionary definition of a word |
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| God in the machine; characters are “saved” by deities/forces |
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| Techniques of deploying the sound of words: rhyme, alliteration, assonance, consonance, onomatopoeia |
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| The speech of a region or social group, usually shown by unique words, expressions, and pronunciation. |
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| Speeches of two or more characters |
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| Daily record, usually private, esp. of the writer's own experiences, observations, feelings, attitudes, etc |
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| Funeral song or tune, or one expressing mourning in commemoration of the dead |
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| Inharmonious or harsh sound; discord; cacophony |
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| Type of poem (taken from theatre) in which a speaker addresses an internal listener or the reader at length (see soliloquy) |
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A mournful, melancholy, or plaintive poem, esp. a funeral song or a lament for the dead; a poem written in elegiac meter
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| A line ending in a full pause, usually w/a period or semi-colon |
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| A line having no end punctuation but running over to the next line |
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| Short, witty poem, usually in couplet, that makes a humorous or satiric point |
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| Concluding part added to the end of a literary work |
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| The substitution of a mild, indirect, or vague expression for one thought to be offensive, harsh, or blunt; the expression so substituted: “To pass away” is a euphemism for “to die.” |
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| When the sounds of words working with meaning pleases the mind and ear (think loveliness in poetry) |
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| a metaphor that is extended through a stanza or entire poem, often by multiple comparisons of unlike objects or ideas |
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| Humorous play whose plot depends on a situation rather than character development. |
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| Writing that uses figures of speech such as metaphor, simile, and irony |
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| Character in the story that helps balance the protagonist, provides contrast |
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| Measured combinations of heavy and light stresses, (e.g. iamb or dactyl) |
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| Poetry based on the natural rhythms of phrases and normal pauses, not metrical feet |
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| Various styles of writing (e.g. drama, fiction, non-fiction, tragedy, poetry, essay, memoires) |
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| A character’s excessive pride (Oedipus) |
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| Exaggeration of the truth/overstatement |
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| A two-syllable foot consisting of a light stress followed by a heave stress (e.g. the winds, or I want) |
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| Descriptions of sensual (having to do with touch, smell, sight, taste, sound) experiences |
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| Comparison that uses neither a connective verb or form of to be: “my love has red petals and sharp thorns” |
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| Vehement or violent criticism; an insulting or abusive word or expression |
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| Any change from a basic word order or syntactic sequence, e.g. the placement of a subject after an auxiliary verb in a question or after the verb in an exclamation, as “When will you go?” and “How beautiful is the rose!” |
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| Short poem written in a repeating stanzaic form, often designed to be set to music |
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| A short rhythmical movement or arrangement, as in poetry or music |
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| A far-fetched and ingenious extended comparison (or "conceit") using unusual analogies for the poet's ideas that are startlingly obscure or shockingly commonplace |
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| The number of feet within a line of traditional verse e.g. iambic pentameter referring to a line containing five iambs |
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| Name of s.t. is substituted for another thing closely associated with it e.g. “The White House” is used for the president |
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| The first 8 lines of an Italian sonnet, unified by topic, rhythm, and rhyme |
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| A stanzaic poetic form (usually long, to contrast it with a song) with varying line lengths and sometimes intricate rhyme schemes |
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| Representation of a thing/action by a word imitating its sound (boom, crash, gurgle) |
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| Military intelligence/cold fire; description that places 2 words/ideas together that seem to contradict each other |
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| A statement that seems contradictory, but makes some sense (“I waked, she fled, and day brought back my night”) |
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| A humorous or satirical imitation of a serious piece of literature or writing: his hilarious parody of Hamlet's soliloquy |
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| The quality/power in literature of evoking pity/compassion |
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| A line of five metrical feet |
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| A thing/animal/abstract term (love/truth) is made human |
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| Introductory part of a play, novel or poem |
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| PROSE (think paragraphs rather than lines) |
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| Either prose fiction (short story or novel) or prose poem (laid out to look like prose employing methods of verse) |
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| A short popular saying, usually of unknown and ancient origin, that expresses effectively some commonplace truth or useful thought; adage |
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| Play on words (A man saying, “I can’t conceive madam, can you?”) |
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| A four line stanza or poetic unit (united by rhyme) |
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| A phrase or verse recurring at intervals in a song or poem, esp. at the end of each stanza; chorus |
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| (Anaphora) the repetition of the same word or phrase throughout a work or a section of a work. The effect is to lend weight and emphasis |
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| A question asked solely to produce an effect or to make an assertion and not to elicit a reply, as “What is so rare as a day in June?” |
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| When two or more words/phrases contain an identical or similar vowel sounds. |
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END/EXTERNAL (rhyme at the end of a line)
FEMININE (rhyme of 2 or more syll. w/a stress on a syll. Other than the last: TURtle/FERtile; intelLECTual, henPECKED you all)
INTERNAL (rhymes occurring within lines of a poem)
MASCULINE (rhyme of 1-syll. words or stressed final syll: reMORSE/diVORCE) |
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| Belief and assumption that reliance on emotion provides a valid and powerful means of knowing and also a reliable guide to ways of living |
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| An attack on human follies or vices, as measured positively against a normative religious, moral or social standards; Writing that tries to arouse a reader’s disapproval of an object by ridicule |
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| The metrical analysis of verse. The usual marks for scansion are ˘ for a short or unaccented syllable, ¯ for a long or accented syllable |
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| A six line stanza or unit of poetry |
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| A metaphor that is easy to understand vs. complex metaphor |
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| Speech made by a character, alone on stage, directly to the audience, in which the character is revealing thoughts and feelings |
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| SONNET (English or Shakespearean) |
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| A poem of fourteen lines in iambic pentameter with 3 Quatrains and 1 couplet. The rhyme scheme is abab/cdcd/efef/gg |
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| A poem of fourteen lines in iambic pentameter with 1 Octave and 1 Sestet. The rhyme scheme is abbaabba/cdecde OR abbaabba/cdcdcd |
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| A group of poetic lines corresponding to paragraphs in prose; the meters and rhymes are usually repeating or systematic |
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| The emphasis given to a syllable, either strong or light |
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| Use of a part of a thing to stand for the whole or vice versa (”She lent a hand” means she lent her entire presence and help) |
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| Word order and sentence structure. Syntax will change depending on what the writer is attempting to do |
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| he techniques/modes of presentation that reveal or create attitudes |
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| Story that presents a conflict between human beings and some superior, overwhelming force |
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| Fatal weakness of the tragic hero |
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| A two syllable foot consisting of a heavy followed by a light stress |
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| A deliberate underplaying or undervaluing of a thing to create emphasis |
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| (realism) setting, circumstances, characters, dialogue, actions and outcomes in a work are designed to seem true, lifelike, real, plausible and probable |
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| Succession of metrical feet written, printed, or orally composed as one line; one of the lines of a poem; a particular type of metrical line: a hexameter verse; a poem, or piece of poetry. |
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