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A metrical foot in poetry that consists of two unstressed syllables followed by one stressed.
I.e. Twas the night before Christmas. |
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| The regular repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases or clause |
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| An address or invocation to something that is inanimate |
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| A style in which conjunctions are omitted |
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| 4 line stanza, alternates between 3 and 4 beats. Line's one and three are unrhymed. |
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| Recurrent designs, patterns of action, character types, themes, or images that are identifiable in a wide range of literature. |
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| A pause in a line of verse, indicated by natural speech patterns rather then specific metrical patterns. |
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A figure of speech in which the order of the terms in the first two parallel clauses is reversed in the second.
I.e. Pleasure's a sin, and sometime sin's a pleasure |
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| A comparison of two unlikely things that is drawn out with a piece of literature. An extended metaphor. |
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| A metrical foot that consists of two stressed syllables then one unstressed syllable. |
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| A poetic lament upon the death of a particular person, usually ending in consolation |
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| The conjunction of a sentence from one line or couplet of a poem to the next |
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| A poem that celebrates in a continuous narrative the achievments of heroes and heroines. I.e. Star Wars, The Odyssey |
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| A legend or a short moral story often using animals as characters. I.e. animal farm |
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| A play or scene in a play or book that is characterized by broad humor, wild antics and often slapstick physical humor. I.e. A Midsummer Night's Dream |
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| Poetry that is characterized by varying line lengths, lack traditional meter and non rhyming lines. |
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| A metrical foot in poetry that goes unstressed, stressed |
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| in the midst of things. The opening of the story starts in action and will fill in the audience on past details |
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| A figure of speech that emphasizes it's subject by conscious understatement. I.e. not bad means you did something really well |
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| Grammatically complete sentence that states the main idea first. |
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| Poems originally to be sung with a lyre...now expresses speakers personal emotion |
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| A figure of speech in which a common feature is used to designate something. I.e. the pen is mightier then the sword |
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| A textual organization based on sequences of connected events, usually presented in chronological order |
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| Describes the life of simple country folk |
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| A sentence that is not grammatically complete until the end |
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| Also called an Italian Sonnet, A sonnet that divides the poem into one section of eight lines and second section of six |
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| A poetic stanza of four lines |
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| The modulation of weak and strong elements (Stressed/Unstressed) in the flow of speech |
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| A literary work that holds up human failings to ridicule and censure |
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| The analysis of verse to show it's meter |
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| Also called an English sonnet; a sonnet format hat divides the poem into three units of four and a final unit of two lines |
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| AKA concrete poetry, poetry that is shaped to look like an object |
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| Extra spacing to separate parts of poem |
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| Character who appears in a number of stories or plays |
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| A part is used to signify the whole |
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| The way words are put together to form phrases, clauses and sentences |
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A verse form consisting of 3-line stanzas in which the second line of each rhymes with the 3rd and 1st of the next.
A, B, A, B, C, B |
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| A metrical foot in poetry that is the opposite of iambic. Stressed, unstressed. |
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| 19 lines, 6 stanzas. 5 tercets and one quatrain. The first and third line of the first tercet rhyme and is repeted in the next four tercets and in the last two lines of the concluding quatrain |
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