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| A saying or proverb containing a truth based on experience and often couched in metaphorical language. |
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| In contrast to Dionysian, it refers to the most noble, godlike qualities of human nature and behavior |
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| The repitiion of two or more vowel sounds in a group of words or lines of a poem. |
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| The use of insincere or overdone sentimentality. |
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| French term for the world of books, criticism, and literature in general. |
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| A German word referring to a novel structured as a series of events that take place as the hero travels in quest of a goal. |
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| A work of literature meant to ridicule a subject; a grotesque imitation. |
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| Grating, inharmonious sounds. |
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| A pause somewhere in the middle of a verse, often marked by punctuation. |
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| Literally, "seize the day", enjoy life while you can, a common theme in literature. |
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| A cleansing of the spirit brought about by the pity and terror of a dramatic tragedy. |
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| The suggested or implied meaning of a word or phrase. Contrast with denotation. |
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| The repetition of two or more consonant sounds in a group of words or a line of poetry. |
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| The dictionory definition of a word. |
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| The resolution that occurs at the end of a play or work of fiction. |
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| As distinguished from Apollonian, the word refers to sensual, pleasure-seeking impulses. |
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| Three periods (...) indicating the omission of words in a thought or quotation. |
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| A sentence containing a deliberate omission of words. In the sentance "May was hot and June the same," the verb was is omitted from the second clause. |
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| A term that describes a line of poetry that ends with a natural pause often indicated by a mark of punctuation. |
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| In poetry, the use of successive lines with no punctuation or pause between them. |
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| A concise but ingenious, witty, and thoughtful statement. |
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| Pleasing, harmonious sounds. |
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| An adjective or phrase that expresses a striking quality of a person or thing; sun-bright topaz, sun-lit lake, and sun bright lake are example. |
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| A detailed analysis or interpretation of a work of literature. |
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| A piece of writing that reveals weaknesses, faults, frailties, or other shortcomings. |
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| The intepretation or analysis of a text. |
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| A short tale often with nonhuman characters from which a useful lesson may be drawn. |
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| A unit of stressed and unstressed syllables used to determine the meter of a poetic line. |
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| A forceful sermon, lecture, or tirade. |
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| The excessive pride that often leads tragic heroes to their death. |
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| A lyric poem or passage that describes a kind of ideal life or place. |
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| A direct verbal assault; a denunciation. |
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| A device employed in Anglo-Saxon poetry in which the name of a thing is replaced by one of its functions or qualities, as in "ring giver" for king and "whale-road" for ocean. |
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| A mocking, satrical assault on a person or situation. |
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| A form of understatement in which the negative of the contrary is used to achieve emphasis or intensity. Example: He is not a bad dancer. |
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| A literary form in which events are exaggerated in order to create an extreme emotional response. |
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| The work of poets, particularly those of the seventeenth century, that uses elaborate conceits, is highly intellectual, and expresses the complexities of love and life. |
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| A figure of speech that uses the name of one thing to represent something else with which it is associated. Example: The white house says..." |
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| A term often used as a synonym for realism; also a view of experience that is generally characterized as bleak and pessimistic. |
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| A novel focusing on and describing social ustoms and habits of a particular social group. |
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| An eight-line rhyming stanza of a poem. |
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| A work of literature dealing with rural life. |
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| A story consisting of events from which a moral or spiritual truth may be delivered. |
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| Faulty reasoning that inappropriately ascribes human feelings to nature or non-human objects. |
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| Sentence expresses main thought only at the end. |
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| An episodic novel about a a rogue-like wanderer who lives off his wits. |
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| The grammar of meter and rhythm in poetry. |
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| novels written for mass consumption, often emphasizing exciting and titillating plots. |
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| A four-line poem or a fourpline unit of a longer poem. |
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| A four-line poem or a fourpline unit of a longer poem. |
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| French for a novel in which historical events and actual people appear under the guise of ficiton. |
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| Language that conveys a speaker's attitude or opinion with regard to a particular subject. |
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| Irony that is not subtle. |
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| The act of determing the meter of a poetic line. Thbe pattern is called scansion. If a verse doesn't "scan," its meter is irrecular. |
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| A form of verse usually consisting of three four-line units called quatrains and a concluding couplet. |
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| A figure of speech in which a aprt signifies the whole (fifty masts for fifty ships) |
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| A French verse form calculated to appear simple and spontaneous but conisting of nineteen lines and a prescribed pattern of rhymes. |
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| The generic name for a figure of speech such as image, symbol, simile, and metaphor. |
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