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| a character addresses a silent audience in a way that reveals a dramatic situation and gives a dramatic situation and gives an aspect of his/her personality. |
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| expresses personal emotions and thoughts of a single speaker |
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| teaches a lesson or a moral. |
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| The use of elevated language rather than ordinary language. |
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| Order of words into meaningful verbal pattern. |
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| Dictionary definition of a word. |
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| Implied meanings and association that go beyond a word's literal meaning. |
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| Idea or expressions that have become tired and trite from overuse, its freshness and clarity having worn off. |
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| A language that addresses the senses (conveys a mood or emotions) |
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| Type of informal diction; spoken by a group from a specific geographic region, economic group, or social group. |
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| Language define by a trade or profession |
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| Speaker created by the poet |
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| Writers attitude toward subject; mood created by all the elevates of the poem |
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| Dignified, impersonal, elevated use of language |
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| Educated people - less than formal diction. |
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| Includes slang, contractions, plain everyday ordinary common words. |
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| an elevated diction used by a poet when choosing words. |
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| A way of saying one thing in terms of something else. (Ex. Lets get down to brass tacks. It's raining cats and dogs.) |
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| Comparison between two unlike things w/o using like or as. |
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| Comparison of two unlike things using like or as. |
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| The giving of human characteristics to nonhuman things |
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| An address either to someone who is absent and therefore cannot hear the speaker or to someone nonhuman that cannot comprehend. |
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| Something that represents something else. |
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| A technique that reveals a discrepancy between what appears to be and what is actually true. (cosmic, situational, verbal, sarcasm, dramatic.) |
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| Literary art of ridiculing a folly or vice in an effort to expose or correct it. |
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| A statement that appears to be self-contradictory. But actually makes sense. |
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| Two contradictory words that are used together |
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| Exaggeration; also called overstatement. |
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| A brief, pointed, witty poem that usually makes a satiric or humorous point. |
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| A sad poem, usually written to praise and express sorrow for someone who is dead. |
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| A poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas and is written down. |
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| A term referring to the use of a word that resembles the sound it denotes. (Ex. Buzz, rattle, bang, and sizzle.) |
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| Refers to language that is smooth and musically pleasant to the ear. |
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| Language that is discordant and difficult to pronounce, such as this line from John Updike's "Player Piano": "never my numb plunker fumbles." |
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| The repetition of the same consonant sounds in a sequence of words, usually at the beginning of a word or stress syllable: |
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| The repetition of internal vowel sounds in nearby words that do not end the same, (Ex. asleep under a tree or each evening.) |
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| Repetition of identical or similar concluding syllables in different words, most often at the ends of lines. Predominantly a function of sound rather than spelling. |
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| Spellings are similar but the pronunciations are not. |
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| Rhymes at the end of lines. |
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| It places at least one of the rhymed words within the line. |
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| Describes the rhyming of single-syllable words. |
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| Consists of a rhymed stressed syllable followed by one or more identical unstressed syllables, as in |
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| A term used to refer to the recurrence of stressed and unstressed sounds in poetry. |
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| The emphasis, or accent, given a a syllable in pronunciation |
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| When a rhythmic pattern of stresses recurs in a poem. |
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| The overall metrical structure of a poem. |
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| The action of scanning a line of verse to determine its rhythm |
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| Contains on stressed syllable and at least one unstressed syllable. |
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| A line of verse with five metrical feet, each consisting of one short(unstressed) syllable followed by one long (stressed) syllable. |
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| A break between words within a metrical foot |
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| Incomplete syntax at the end of a line; the meaning runs over from one poetic line to the next, without terminal punctuation. |
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| Line of poetry ends with a period or definite punctuation mark. |
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| Follows a certain pattern-rhyme scheme or meter. |
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| two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit. |
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| a set or group of three lines of verse rhyming together or connected by rhyme with an adjacent tercet. |
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| a stanza of four lines, especially on having alternate rhymes. |
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| a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English, typically having ten syllables per line. |
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| rhyme scheme abbaabba cdecde; or cdcdcd, or cdccdc |
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| 17 syllables in three unrhymed lines usually based on an intense emotion or a vivid image in nature |
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| Lyric poem in the form of an address to a particular subject, often elevated in style or manner and written in a varied or irregular meter. |
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| humorous poem consisting of five lines. |
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| area in front of the stage where the groundlings watch the play for 1 cent |
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| speech directed to audience by actor |
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| speech by actor alone on stage |
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| humorous scene that alleviates tension in a serious work |
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