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| derived from tone-readers feelings |
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| using like or as to compare two generally unrelated things |
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| "hero" or main character of the story |
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| the thing, event, or character that causes the main conflict or is a major part of the main conflict |
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| the repetition of similar vowel sounds |
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| the repetition of similar consonant sounds |
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| a statement that reveals a kind of truth, although it seems at 1st to be self-contradictory and un-true |
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| the balancing of 2 contradicting ideas, words, phrases or sentences |
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| giving human-like characteristics to non-human things |
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| words or phrases that create pictures of images in the reader's mind. |
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ok the def. for this one sucks so heres the def. witht an explaination that makes sense.
DEF: a figure of speech in which something very closely related with a thing is used to stand for the thing itself. (yeah i know but read the example)
EX: "Three white sails came into the harbor" sails=ship not the sails themself...not literal |
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| a figure of speech that substitutes a part for a whole |
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| what person is the story told in |
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| one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllabble |
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| one stressed syllable followed by one unstressed syllabble |
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| 3line stanzas and a concluding 4line stanza |
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| 5-7-5 (syllable order, 3 lines) |
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| words or phrases that make pictures (ezra pound) |
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| Literary movement in France involving many poets using symbolism in their poetry |
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| Movement that broke with traditions (early 20th century writers) |
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| the virtual end of humanity |
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| think of the story that the one guy wrote in Ireland about eating the babies to end the hunger problem |
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Author: Johnathan Swift
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-mocks methods Ireland uses to cure the starvation |
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Author: William Wordsworth
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-Man goes back to the abbey & has different reaction when returning. Beauty of nature, nostolgia |
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| Rime of the Ancient Mariner |
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Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Content: warning to the wedding guest
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-sublime |
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| a literary or other artistic work that portrays or evokes rural life, usually in an idealized way |
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| Written in iambic hexameter, last line in spenserian stanza |
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| The adressing of something that isnt present |
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| An elaborate comparison between two very unalike things |
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| A comparison made between unrelated subjects |
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| Abstract and not concrete things put into literature |
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| unrhymed iambic pentameter |
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| pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry |
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| four pairs of stressed and unstressed syllables |
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| The real meaning is concealed or contradicted by the words use |
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| The author is dropping hints on what is to happen later in the plot |
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| The inclusion of a comical character in an otherwise serious work |
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| To opress by exhaultaion. (Making something seem so great that nothing could be like it thus offending someone) |
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| The repetition of initial consonant sounds |
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| The juxtaposition of two generally unrelated words that is used as a poetic substitution in Anglo Saxon epics |
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| A mid-line pause used to keep time in a poem |
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| The rhyme pattern found in a poem |
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| study of the veriscation in poetry |
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| A method in which stories and epics such as Beowulf are told |
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| a short story intended to prove a moral point, almost like a fable, but more religious |
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| An apology meant to justify something (pardoners tale) |
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| Short story with a moral that has animals in it |
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| Ubsurd characters playing roles of traditional heros (the nuns preists tale) |
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| Being able to rely on the narrator by what they say and who they are as a person |
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| 14 linned poem with a strict rhyme scheme |
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| ABBA ABBA CDE CDE one octave:problem, one sestet:resolution |
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| ABAB CDCD EFEF GG three quatrains:the problem is introduced couplet: epigramatic turn |
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| ABAB BCBC CDCD EE 8lines in iambic pentameter with the 8th line an alexandrine (hexameter) |
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| promises some insite on the problem |
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| A unit within a larger poem |
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| Relating to a characteristic of a much earlier time (tends to be verbal) ex. thelen riding his mom, uh i mean a horse to school...wait whats the difference.... |
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| elements are used in historical context that isnt appropriate for the time period that it is written in |
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| An instance of indirect reference |
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| a short saying that will often express the basic truth |
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| A bunch of sonnets that have the same controlling idea or are adressed to the same person |
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| The representation of abstract ideas or principles by characters figures or events |
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| song traditionally sung by the common people |
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