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| A word or phrase that takes the place of a harsh, unpleasant, or impolite reality. The use of PASSED AWAY for died, and LET GO for fired are two examples. |
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| When sounds blend harmoniously, the result is ______. |
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| To say or write something directly and clearly (this is rare happening in literatrure because the whole game is to be "implicit," that is, to suggeat and imply) |
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| Today we use this word to refer to extremely broad humor. Writes of earlier times used _____ as a more neutral term, meaning simply a funny play; a comedy. |
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| Lines rhymed by their final two syllables. A pair of lines ending with RUNNING and GUNNING would be an example of _________. Properly, in _______ (and not simply a double rhyme) the penultimate syllables are stressed and the final syllables are unstressed. |
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| A secondary character whose purpose is to highlight the characteristics of a main character, usually by contrast. For example, an author will often give a cynical, quick-witted character as docile, naive, sweet-tempered to serve as a ______. |
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| The basic rhythmic unit of a line of poetry. A ____ is formed by a combination of two or three syllables, either stressed or unstressed. |
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| An event or statement in a narrative that in miniature suggests a larger event that comes later. |
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| Poetry written without a regular rhyme scheme or metrical pattern. |
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| a subcategory of literature. Science fiction and detective stories are ____ of fiction. |
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| _____ is the sensibility derived from ______ novels. This form first showed up in the middle of the 18th century and had a heyday of popularity for about sixty years. It hasn't really ever gone away. The sensibility? think mysterious gloomy castles perched high upon sheer cliffs. Paintings with sinister eyeballs that follow you around the room. Weird screams from the attic each night. Diaries with a final entry that trails off the page and reads something like "No, NO! IT COULDN'T BE!!" |
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| The excessive pride or ambition that leads to the main character's downfall (another term from Aristotle's discussion of tragedy). |
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| Exaggeration or deliberate overstatement |
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| To say or write something that suggests and implies but never says it directly or clearly. "Meaning" is definitely present, but it's in the imagery, or "between the lines." |
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| Latin for " in the midst of things." One of the conventions of epic poetry is that the action begins _________. For example, when "The Iliad" begins, the Trojan war has already been going on for seven years. |
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| a term for novels and poetry, not dramatic literature. It refers to writing that records the mental talking that goes on inside a character's head. It is related, but not identical to stream of comsciousness. __________ tends to be coherent, as though the character were actually talking. Steram of consciousness is looser and much more given to fleeting mental impressions. |
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| Switching the customary order of elements in a sentnce or phrase. When done badly it can give a stilted, artificial, look-at-me-I'm-poetry feel to the verse, but poets do it all the time. This type of messing with syntax is called poetic licens. "I'll have on large pizza with all the fixins"-presto chango instant poetry: "A pizza I'll have, one with the fixin's all." |
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| ______ comes in a variety of forms. One definition is: a statement that means the oppostie of what it seems to means. The hallmark of ____ is an undertow of meaning, sliding against the literal meaing of the words. |
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| A poem of sadness or grief over the death of a loved one or over some other intense loss. |
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| Loose and periodic sentences |
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| A ______ sentence is complete before its end. A ______ sentence is not grammatically complete until it has reached its final phrase. |
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| A type of poetry that explores the poet's personal interpretation of and feelings about the world (or the part that his poem is about). When used to describe a tone it refers to a sweet, emotional melodiousness. |
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| a rhyme ending on the final stressed syllable (aka regular old rhyme). |
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| You are discovering what makes sense, what's important. |
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| A form of cheesy theater in which the hero is very, very good, the villian mean and rotten, and the heroine oh-so-pure. |
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| A _______ is a comparision, or analogy that states one thing IS another. "His eyes were burning coals," or "In the morning the lake is covered in what seems to be liquid gold." |
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