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A repetition of sound that a certain consonant may make.
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"Grant Graves grew gangly guessing golden gourds" |
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| an implied or indirect reference especially in literature; the act of hinting at something |
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| something or someone that is not in its correct historical or chronological time, especially a thing or person that belongs to an earlier time. |
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| something or someone that is not in its correct historical or chronological time, especially a thing or person that belongs to an earlier time. |
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the rhetorical contrast of ideas by means of parallel arrangements of words, clauses, or sentence;
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"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness..." |
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a digression in the form of an address to someone not present, or to a personified object or idea
Example: ‘O Death, where is thy sting?' |
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| when a character speaks directly to the audience or another character, but the other characters on stage can not hear what the speaker is saying |
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| the dominant mood or emotional tone of a work of art |
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| Blank Verse is Poetry that is written in unrhymed iambic pentameter. Blank verse is often unobtrusive and the iambic pentameter form often resembles the rhythms of ordinary speech. |
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| any emotional discharge which brings about a moral or spiritual renewal or welcomes relief from tension and anxiety; a relief from tension or anxiety that is felt by the audience after the end of a play |
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1. an amusing scene, incident, or speech introduced into serious or tragic elements, as in a play, in order to provide temporary relief from tension, or to intensify the dramatic action.
2. relief from tension caused by the introduction or occurrence of a comic element, as by an amusing human foible. |
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| a character that is introduced for the sole purpose of resolving a conflict many times called “divine intervention” (often the character appears quite unexpectedly) |
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| a character in a literary work that is used to highlight the contrasting characteristics of another character (usually the main character). |
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| A term coined by Aristotle to describe the imperfection or shortcoming in a character’s personality that ultimately leads to their demise. Also known as the "tragic flaw". |
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| excessive pride or self-confidence; arrogance |
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| A figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect. |
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a common meter in poetry. It consists of ten syllables, five iambic feet, per line. Each foot contains an unaccented syllable followed by an accented syllable.
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"And wash this filthy witness from your hand." (2.2.44 Macbeth |
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| A literary device that uses contradictory statements or situations to reveal a reality different from what appears to be true. |
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| comparison of two unlike things without using "like" or "as". |
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| figure of speech in which one word or phrase is substituted for another with which it is closely associated |
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| a recurring subject, theme, idea, etc., esp. in a literary, artistic, or musical work. |
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| A figure of speech in which animals, ideas and inanimate objects are endowed with human form, characteristics, traits or sensibilities. |
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| the humorous use of a word or phrase so as to emphasize or suggest its different meanings or applications, or the use of words that are alike or nearly alike in sound but different in meaning; a play on words. |
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| a comparison of two unlike things using "like" or "as" |
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| A soliloquy is a literary or dramatic type of dialogue in which a character, who is alone on stage, speaks his or her thoughts aloud without addressing a listener |
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| a dramatic composition, often in verse, dealing with a serious or somber theme, typically that of a great person destined through a flaw of character or conflict with some overpowering force, as fate or society, to downfall or destruction. |
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| a character defect in a protagonist which is the cause of his or her downfall. |
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| a concise, general truth, written or spoken in a form that is easily memorable. |
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| The repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words |
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| the selection and arrangement of words in a literary work. |
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| a mournful, melancholy, or plaintive poem, esp. a funeral song or lament for the dead |
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| the interruption of a sentence or phrase by a break. The sentence/phrase is continued in the next line of writing |
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| a form of poetry that does not have established meter, rhyme, or stanza |
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| a short poem of songlike quality, such as a sonnet. |
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| an artistic style that depicts elements of fantasy and dreams as commonplace in reality |
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| A word that imitates the sounds it represents. |
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| A statement that contradicts itself |
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| Point of View that presents the action and the characters' speech, without comment or emotion. |
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| Point of View that can see and report everything |
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| point of view; a character, "he" or "she," who "tells" the story |
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| a perspective pinned to a single character, whether a first-person-or a third-person-centered consciousness, so that we cannot know for sure what is going on in the minds of other characters |
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| point of view also called omniscient point of view; a perspective that can be seen from one character’s view, then another’s, then another’s |
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| The relationship or organization of the component parts of a work of art or literature |
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| The author’s implicit attitude toward the reader or the people, places, and events in a work as revealed by the elements of the author’s style |
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| The arrangement of ideas and/or incidents that make up a story. |
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| Background information regarding the setting, characters, plot. (Can be considered unartful) |
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| The place or location of the action, the setting provides the historical and cultural context for characters. It often can symbolize the emotional state of characters. |
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| Struggle between opposing forces (can be internal) that drives plot |
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| The way the story turns out. (Denouement) |
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| The means by which writers reveal character. Includes description, dialogue, dialect, action, attitude, thoughts, reactions. |
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| A stanza of four lines, often rhyming in an ABAB pattern. Also called "stave." |
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| a construction or expression in one language that cannot be matched or directly translated word-for-word in another language. |
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| A two-syllable unit or foot of poetry consisting of a heavy stress followed by a light stress. (Ex: happy, clever, slacker, double) |
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| A rhetorical trope involving a part of an object representing the whole, or the whole of an object representing a part. (All HANDS on deck does not really refer to hands) |
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| Literary work that exaggerates the physical features, dress, or mannerisms of an individual or derides the ideas and actions of an organization, institution, movement, etc. |
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| A word or phrase used everyday in plain and relaxed speech, but rarely found in formal writing. |
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| Writing that is "preachy" or seeks overtly to convince a reader of a particular point or lesson. |
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: repetition of a word or expression at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, sentences, or verses especially for rhetorical or poetic effect
Example: Charles **ins Tale of Two Cities "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness..." |
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| Definition: A poem about dawn; a morning love song; or a poem about the parting of lovers at dawn |
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| A coming of age novel where the author presents the psychological, moral and social dilemmas that mold the personality of a character, generally the protagonist. Usually in the beginning of the story there is an emotional loss which makes the protagonist leave on his journey. In Bildungsroman, the goal is maturity, and the protagonist gets it gradually and with difficulty. A main conflict in this genre is between the main character and society |
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| ("bad sound") may be unintentional in the writer’s sense of music, or it may be used consciously for deliberate dramatic effect. Cacophony is harsh, discordant sounds. Opposite of euphony. |
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| Cadence is the progressive rhythmical pattern in lines of verse; also, the natural tone or modulation of the voice determined by the alternation of accented or unaccented syllables." It is related to the meter of the poem or piece of writing |
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| grammatical pause or break in a line of poetry (like a question mark), usually near the middle of the line. |
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| a description of a person using exaggeration of some characteristics and oversimplification of others |
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| An elaborate or unusual comparison.In literary terms, the word denotes a fairly elaborate figure of speech. Intellectual! |
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| A conceit used by the Italian poet Petrarch in his love poems, or similar to those he used. In the Renaissance, English poets were quite taken with Petrarch's conceits and recycled them in their own poetry. His oxymora were also common. |
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| the repetition of consonants (or consonant patterns) especially at the ends of words |
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| A didactic poem is a form of poetry that attempts to illustrate and teach a moral lesson. |
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| is a substitution of an agreeable or less offensive expression in place of one that may offend or suggest something unpleasant to the receiver. |
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| agreeableness of sound; pleasing effect to the ear, esp. a pleasant sounding or harmonious combination or succession of words |
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| a rhyme with similar spellings, but different sounds. It is an agreement in spelling, but not in sound, of the ends of words or of lines of verses. |
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| A rhyme that matches two or more syllables at the end of the poetic line. The last syllable is unstressed |
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| Rhyme created by two or more words that occurs within a line of verse |
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| In simple terms: when words rhyme on a single syllable. |
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| the use in the same expression of two or more metaphors that are incongruous or illogical when combined, as in “The president will put the ship of state on its feet |
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| when characters portray whatever is being critiqued or made fun of through their ridiculous actions or thoughts usually with a lot of irony on the writer's part. |
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| when human wrongs and vices are bitterly criticized and critiqued |
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| the second group lines in an Italian sonnet, which consists of a first group of lines called an octave and a sestet |
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| Three lines of poetry, as a stanza or as a poem. Meter and rhyme not required. |
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| Five line stanza in which the first line is comprised of 2 syllables, the second of 4, then 6, then 8, then a final line of 2 syllables. The lines need not rhyme but are often written in iambic meter |
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