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Literary Terms 8
Incident - Masculine ending
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English
10th Grade
04/14/2011

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Incident
Definition
One of the events (usually minor) that make up the events of the play
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Initial incident
Definition
The event or inciting force or challenge in a play that introduces the conflict
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In media res
Definition
The way in which epics usually start; in the middle of things
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Internal rhyme
Definition
Rhyme that occurs in the middle of a line
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Innuendo
Definition
Insinuation or indirect situation, often with sinister connotation
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Irony
Definition
Figure in which implied meaning is the opposite of the literal meaning
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Irregular ode
Definition
Ode in which each stanza has a different shape
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Italian or Petrarchan sonnet
Definition
Poem of 14 lines, rhyming abba, abba//cdc cdc. The first stanza is an octet and the second stanza is a sestet
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Legitimate theater
Definition
Drama performed on stage
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Limerick
Definition
Five-line comic verse rhyming aabba; the first, second, and fifth lines are trimeter and the third and fourth dimeter
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Literal language
Definition
Form of language in which writers and speakers mean exactly what they say
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Literary ballad
Definition
Ballad intended to be read, rather than sung
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Local color
Definition
Speech, dress, mannerisms indicative of a specific region
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Low comedy
Definition
In contrast to high comedy, this creates down-to-earth humor by means of (slapstick) or ridiculous action
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Low diction
Definition
Street language; simple or vulgar words
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Lyric poem
Definition
Type of poem characterized by brevity, compression, and expression of feeling; often written in first person
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Masculine line
Definition
Stressed syllable at the end of a line
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