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English 1100
Final Exam Vocab
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English
Undergraduate 1
04/20/2008

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Poetry
Definition
a literary genre, everything has meaning
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Imagery
Definition
what the piece creates as a mental picture, symbolism that ties in with larger meanings.
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Connotation
Definition
hidden meaning, added over time
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Denotation
Definition
the extact definition
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Poetic Diction
Definition
the way that a poet uses words that the author finds describes best
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Figure of Speech
Definition
a literary device involving unusual use of languaage, often to assist or compare distinct things
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Metaphor
Definition
A figure of speech that assists two distinct things; the representation of one thing by another.
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Simile
Definition
A figure of speech that compares to direct thing by using words such as like or as to link the vehicle and the tenor.
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Synaesthia
Definition
Generally, a psychological process whereby one kind of sensory stimulus evokes the subjuctive experience of another.
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Personification
Definition
Giving something that is not human, human qualities.
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Prosody
Definition
the study of meter, rythme, and rythmn.
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Onomatopoeia
Definition

Sound affects as words

 

Ex: "Pow." or "Boom."

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Alliteration

Definition
the repition of sounds in a sequence of words.
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Euphony
Definition

Pleasing, harmonious sounds.

 

l, r, m, n, and ng

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Internal rythme
Definition
Rythme is within the poetic line.
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End Rythme
Definition
Ends of a poetic line rythmes with next one
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Slant Rythme
Definition
Looks like it rythmes but doesn't actually rythme.
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Sublime
Definition

A peace with nature, an understanding.

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Openform
Definition

Does not have a specific form, might have meter but no structure pursue.

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Closed form/fixed form
Definition
Sticks with structure.
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Terzarima
Definition
Three lined stanzas with a rythme.
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Emjambment
Definition
Spans more than one line. The line ends but the thought does not.
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Sonnet

Definition
A little song; 14 lines and usually broken into two parts.
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Kenning

Definition
Metaphor
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Caesura
Definition

A break.

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In Medias Res
Definition

A technique where the author narrates during the action.

 

-in the middle-

 

(flashback)

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Metanarrative
Definition

A story being conscious that it is a story.

-knows its purpose.

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Symbol
Definition
An extended simile; an object that stands for another object.
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Archetype
Definition
Symbols that have been with us so long that it has a deep connection with your subconcious.
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Allegory
Definition

Symbolic to the whole piece.

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