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12th Grade
09/03/2007

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ad hominem argument
Definition
appealing to emotion rather than reason
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alliteration
Definition
repitition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words.
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allusion
Definition
reference to familiar person or thing
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apostrophe
Definition
directly addressing an absent or imaginary person.
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assonance
Definition
repetition of vowel sounds
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ballad
Definition
narrative poem originally sung
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bathos
Definition
excessive pathos
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caesura
Definition
pause in line dictated by rhythm (...)
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consonance
Definition
close repitition of consonant sounds (flip flop, hid bed)
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couplet
Definition
2 lines of verse, usually rhymed
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denouement
Definition
events following the climax and resolution
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deus ex machina
Definition
go from machine "saves the day"
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diction
Definition
choice of words and placement
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dissonance
Definition
juxtaposition of jarring sounds
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doggerel
Definition
comical crudelt written verse
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elegy
Definition
poem mourning death
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end-stopped line
Definition
end of phrase coincides with end of line
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epic
Definition
poem exalted in heroic theme
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epic (Homeric) simile
Definition
extended simile
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epigram
Definition
short witty statement
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epilogue
Definition
final section of speech or writeen work
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epiphany
Definition
an insight
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epitaph
Definition
death inscription
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epithet
Definition
term used to characterize a person (Jack the ripper)
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fable
Definition
narrative illustrating a moral truth
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figurative language
Definition
makes use of figures of speech
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foot
Definition
group of syllabels froming metrical unit
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form
Definition
fixed metrical arrangement
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free verse
Definition
relies on natural rhythm
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gallows humor
Definition
black (dark) humor
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genre
Definition
literary type or class
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heroic couplet
Definition
pair oh rhymed iambic pentameter lines
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hyperbole
Definition
deliberate exaggeration
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imagery
Definition
language engaging senses
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irony
Definition
expression of a meaning contradictory of whats stated. Verbal : opposite whats said. Dramatic: understood in a double sense by audience. Situational: reverse of anticipations.
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litotes
Definition
understatement
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lyric
Definition
feelings expressed in words with lyrical quality.
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metaphor
Definition
comparing 2 unlike objects
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metonymy
Definition
object substituted for another. (my light [vision] is spent)
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meter
Definition
pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.
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motif
Definition
recurring image, verbal pattern
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narrative verse
Definition
tells a story
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ode
Definition
serious dignified lyrical poem
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onomatopoeia
Definition
words whose sound express theie meaning.
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ottava rima
Definition
8 lines abababcc
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oxymoron
Definition
2 contradictory terms. cold fire
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pathetic fallacy
Definition
human characteristics given to inanimate objects
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pathos
Definition
quality envoking feeling.
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persona
Definition
a mask the author assumes
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personification
Definition
inanimate objects with human qualitites.
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petrarchan sonnet
Definition
14 lines divided into 2 parts, an octave abbaabba and sestet cdecde
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quatrain
Definition
4 line stanza
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repitition
Definition
duplication of an element of language
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rhyme royal
Definition
7 line stanza ababbcc
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shakespearean sonnet
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14 lines abab cdcd efef gg, or abba cddc effe gg
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simile
Definition
comparison using like or as
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spenserian sonnet
Definition
same with rhyme of abab bcbc cdcd ee
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stanza
Definition
group of lines forming division of a poem
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style
Definition
qualities making up a way of writing
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syllogism
Definition
deductive logical argument
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symbol
Definition
something standing for something else.
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synecdoche
Definition
part represents the whole (all hands on deck)
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syntax
Definition
choice of words and placement in sentences
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terza rima
Definition
aba bcb cdc etc.
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tone
Definition
authors attitude toward subject
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villanelle
Definition
a french fixed form (5 tercets and a quatrain all w/ 2 rhymes)
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