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| Any wave-like recurrence of motion or sound (the natural rise and fall of the language); alternation between accented and unaccented syllables. |
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| The kind of rhythm we can tap our foot to or "measure" in poetry. We use the "foot" and "line" pattern of measured sound units recurring more or less regularly in lines of verse. |
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| Metrical foot characterized by 1 accented followed by 1 unaccented syllable |
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| Metrical foot characterized by 2 unaccented syllables followed by 1 accented syllable |
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| Metrical foot characterized by 1 accented syllable followed by 2 unaccented syllables |
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| Metrical foot characterized by two accented syllables |
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| Comprised of one syllable |
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| A line of verse with 1 metrical foot |
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| A line of verse with 2 metrical feet |
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| A line of verse with 3 metrical feet |
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| A line of verse with 4 metrical feet |
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| A line of verse with 5 metrical feet |
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| A line of verse with 6 metrical feet |
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| A line of verse with 8 metrical feet |
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| A line of verse with 5 iambs |
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| A group of verse lines in a poem, which is seen as a unit |
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| The analysis of a poem's meter, identifying the type of feet and then counting them. |
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| Iambic pentameter that does not rhyme |
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| Not metrical verse; arranged in lines but no fixed metrical pattern |
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| Figure of speech by which something is referred indirectly by naming only some part of it; where a part stands for the whole. |
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| A telling of some true or fictitious event recounted by a narrator |
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| Any fairly short poem expressing the personal mood, feeling, or meditation of a single speaker |
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| A lyric poem lamenting the arrival of dawn to separate two lovers |
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| A poetic catalogue of a person's admirable physical features |
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| A quotation from Horace's "Odes," meaning "seize the day"; in other words "make the best of the present moment." It is a common theme in lyric poetry, in which the speaker of a poem argues (often to a hesitant virgin) that since life is short, pleasure should be enjoyed while there is still time. |
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| A figure of speech in which the speaker addresses a dead or absent person, or an abstraction or inanimate object. |
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| A quotation or motto placed at the beginning of a book, chapter, or poem as an indication of its theme. |
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| The speaker's attitude toward the subject. Specifically identify it with an adjective. |
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| Imagery appealing to sound |
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| Imagery appealing to sight |
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| Imagery appealing to taste |
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| Imagery appealing to the inside (heart or stomach) |
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| Imagery appealing to smell |
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| Imagery appealing to and describing movement |
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| Imagery appealing to touch |
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| A figure of speech extended for line or even pages. |
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| Written by Donne and his followers; characterized by intellectual displays and concern with metaphysical, or philosophical, issues. Uses conceits and paradoxes. |
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| Images or descriptions that appear self-contradictory but that reveal a deeper truth. |
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| Extended comparisons that link objects or ideas not commonly associated, often mixing abstract ideas and emotional matters. |
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| The arrangement of similarly constructed clauses, sentences, or verse lines in a pairing or other sequence suggesting some correspondence between them |
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| Petrarchan Sonnet Characteristics |
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| Divided into an octave (usually ABBAABBA)and a sestet (commonly CDCDCD or CDECDE). The octave presents a situation and the sestet a comment or the octave an idea and the sestet an examle, or the octave a question and the sestet an answer. |
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| Shakespearean Sonnet Characteristics |
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Reflect on various aspects of life, such as personal relationships, the passing of time, and the relationship between human beings and nature
1. 14 lines: 3 quatrains and 1 couplet
Problem or premise in 1st 12 lines followed by a turn/solution or conclusion in the last 2 lines
2. Rhymes with definitive rhythmic pattern, typically ABAB CDCD EFEF GG
3. Written in iambic pentameter |
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| A repeated word, phrase, line, or group of lines |
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| A line or lines are repeated with slight variations from stanza to stanza, advancing the plot of the narrative. |
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| Use of phrases that possess an understood meaning beyond the literal interpretation |
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| A pattern of rimed lines. |
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| Traditional Ballad Characteristics |
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1. Tragic incident in local history or legend-sensational, sordid subject matters
2. Often addresses a social cause or makes a good social statement
3. Narrative poem that tells a story simply and impersonally to the point of starkness
4. Often has a large component of dialogue, question and answer
5. May include supernatural events
6. Includes refrain
7. Omission of details
8. Incremental Repetition
9. Conventional Phrases-Understood to have meaning beyond literal
10. Strong simple beat-iambic tetrameter or trimeter |
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| Literary Ballad Characteristics |
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Literary Ballad stanza:
1. A quatrain
2. 1st and 3rd lines--iambic tetrameter
2nd and 4th lines--iambic trimeter
3. usually ABCB--2nd and 4th lines rhyme |
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| Term used by postmodern theorists, commonly referring to parody, irony, and playfulness in embracing diversity and contradiction or rejecting rigid boundaries of high and low art |
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| Something made or put together using whatever materials happen to be available |
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| Fiction that deals, often playfully and self-referentially, with the writing of fiction or its conventions. |
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| A dramatic, literary, or musical piece openly imitating the previous works of other artists; a hodgepodge of incongruous parts. |
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| Writer's attitude toward his subject, his audience, or himself |
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| The person whose perspective is given by self-references through phrases including words such as "I", "my," or "our"; narrator tells about events he or she has personally witnessed |
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| The person who is the main character of a writing and is referred to by phrases including the word "you"; narrator is speaking to someone else |
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| Third-person Narrator: Omniscient |
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| Referencing to each and every character of a work with words such as "he", "she", "it", and "they". The narrator may know all information about a single character, but the author's knowledge is "limited" to that character; speaker is usually anonymous, emphasizing actions and speeches of others |
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| Third-person Narrator: Limited or Limited-Omniscient |
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| Referencing to each and every character of a work with words such as "he", "she", "it", and "they". The narrator possesses omniscient knowledge of people, time, places, and events; speaker is usually anonymous, emphasizing actions and speeches of others |
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| Anything that stands for or represents something beyond itself |
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| A work made of two matching parts |
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| A story with a second distinct meaning, partially hidden behind its literal meaning |
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| Willing suspension of disbelief |
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| "I believe with ease." "Facile credo." |
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| Repetition of initial consonant sounds that are so close to one another: "rough and ready." |
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| Repetition of similar vowel sounds followed by different consonant sounds in words that are close together: "face" and "fade" |
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| The repetition of final consonant sounds after different vowel sounds: "dig" and "dog" |
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| Occurs at the end of lines in poetry |
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| The use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning: "clap, squish, sizzle" |
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