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09/25/2014

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Simile
Definition
items from different classes are compared by a connective word such as like, as, or than
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Metaphor
Definition
compares terms that are incompatible without use of the word like or a verb such as appears
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Personification
Definition
Attributing human feelings or characteristics to inanimate objects or abstracts
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Apostrophe
Definition
addresses a person or thing not literally listening.
ex.- "Hope, thou bold taster of delight."
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Dramatic monologue
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poet creates so distinct a speaker that the character clearly is not us but is something Other. In it a highly specific character speaks in a clearly specified situation.
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Diction
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One's conscious or unconscious selection of words and grammatical constructions;

how you choose to speak

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Tone
Definition
The speaker's attitude from which they choose their words, pitch, and modulation
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Irony
Definition
when what is said contradicts what is really meant
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Understatement
Definition
a form of irony. What is said understates what is really meant.
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Sarcasm
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Form of irony. Crude, contemptuous.
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metonymy
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Something is mentioned that replaces something close to it. Ex.- City Hall stands for municipal authority.
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verbal irony
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what is stated is negated by what is suggested
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overstatement (hyperbole)
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Overstates what is really meant
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Paradox
Definition
Verbal irony with a sense of contradiction
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rhythm
Definition
Stresses at regular intervals.
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Stressed
Definition
the accented sounds
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Prosody
Definition
The study of principles of verse structure, including meter, rhyme, and other sound effects, and stanzaic patterns
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Meter
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From the Greek word for measure. A pattern of stressed sounds.
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Foot
Definition
basic unit of measurement in poetry. Generally consists of two or three syllables, one of which is stressed.
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Hovering Stress
Definition
the stress is equally distributed over two syllables
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Iamb (iambic)
Definition
adjective iambic. one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable. Most common pattern in English speech.
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Trochee (trochaic)
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one stressed syllable followed by one unstressed
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Anapest (anapestic)
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two unstressed syllables followed by one stressed
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Dactyl (dactylic)
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one stressed syllable followed by two unstressed
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Spondee (spondaic)
Definition
two stressed syllables, most often used as a substitute for an iamb or trochee
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Pyrrhic
Definition
two unstressed syllables, not often considered a legitimate foot in English
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monometer
Definition
one foot
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dimeter
Definition
two feet
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trimeter
Definition
three feet
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tetrameter
Definition
four feet
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pentameter
Definition
five feet
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hexameter
Definition
six feet
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heptameter
Definition
seven feet
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octameter
Definition
eight feet
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scansion
Definition
tells you what the metrical line is named. Say anapestic trimeter (three anapests)
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masculine ending
Definition
line ending with a stress
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feminine ending
Definition
line ending with an extra unstressed syllable
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caesura
Definition
slight pause within the line
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end-stopped line
Definition
concludes with a distinct syntactical pause
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run on line
Definition
has its sense carried over into the next line without syntactical pause
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enjambment
Definition
running on of a line
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rhyme
Definition
the repitition of identical or similar stressed sound or sounds
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perfect/exact rhyme
Definition
differing consonant sounds are followed by identical stressed vowel sounds and the following sounds are identical foe, toe; meet, fleet; buffer, rougher.
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half/off rhyme
Definition
only the final consonant sounds of the words are identical; the stressed vowel sounds as well as the initial consonant sounds differ ex.- soul, oil; mirth, forth; trolley, bully.
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eye-rhyme
Definition
the sounds do not rhyme but look as if they do ex.- cough, bough; again, rain.
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masculine rhyme
Definition
the final syllables are stressed and, after their differing initial consonant sounds, are identical in sound. ex.-stark, mark; support, retort
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feminine/double rhyme
Definition
stressed rhyming syllables are followed by identical unstressed syllables ex.- revival, arrival; flatter, batter.
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triple rhyme
Definition
kind of feminine rhyme in which identical stressed vowel sounds are followed by two unstressed syllables. ex.- machinery, scenery; tenderly, slenderly.
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end/terminal rhyme
Definition
rhyming words occur at the end of the lines
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internal rhyme
Definition
at least one of the rhyming words occurs within the line
ex.- Each narrow cell in which we dwell.
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alliteration
Definition
repetition of initial sounds
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assonance
Definition
repetition of identical vowel sounds preceded and followed by differing consonant sounds.
ex.- tide and bide rhyme, but tide and mine are assonantal
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consonance
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repetition of identical consonant sounds and differing vowel sounds in words in proximity ex.- fail, feel; rough, roof; pitter, patter
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onomatopoeia
Definition
words that imitate sounds
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verse
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couplet
Definition
stanza of two lines, usually with end rhymes
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heroic couplet
Definition
rhyming couplet of iambic pentameter, often "closed," (containing a complete thought)
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triplet (tercet)
Definition
three line stanza, usually with only one rhyme
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quatrain
Definition
four line stanza, rhymed or unrhymed
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heroic (elegaic) quatrain
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iambic pentameter, rhyming abab. First and third lines rhyme.
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sonnet
Definition
fourteen line poem, predominantly in iambic pentameter
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Italian (Petrarchan) Sonnet
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first eight lines, abba abba, are octave, the last six, rhyming cd cd cd, are sestet.
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English (Shakespearean) Sonnet
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arranged into three quatrains and a couplet
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blank verse
Definition
unrhymed iambic pentameter
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verse paragraph
Definition
passage of blank verse that has a rhetorical unity
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free verse
Definition
rhythmical lines varying in length, usually unrhymed
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