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| a syllable given more prominence in pronunciation than its neighbors. |
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| relating to beauty or a branch of philosophy concerned with art, beauty, and taste |
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| - a form of extended metaphor in which objects, persons, and actions in a narrative are equated with the meanings that lie outside the narrative itself. |
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| the repetition of initial sounds in neighboring words. |
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| brief reference to a person, event, or place that is real or fictitious. |
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| the deliberate repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of several successive verses, clauses, or paragraphs. |
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| inversion of the normal syntactic order of words |
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| - the act of attributing human forms or qualities to entities which are not human |
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| sudden turn from the general audience to address a specific group or person personified abstraction absent or present |
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| a brief saying embodying a moral concise statement of a principle or precept given in pointed words. |
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| words in a rhyming pattern that have some kind of sound correspondence but are not perfect rhymes. |
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| repetition of vowel sounds but not consonant sounds as in consonance |
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| a poem about dawn, a morning love song; or a poem about the parting lovers at dawn. |
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| a fairly short narrative poem written in a songlike stanza form |
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| unrhymed iambic pentameter, used in Shakespeare. |
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| harsh, discordant, unpleasant sounding choice and arrangement of sounds |
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| a natural pause or break. |
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| an extended metaphor, or an elaborate parallel between two seemingly dissimilar objects or ideas. |
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| the association or implied meaning that a word carries along with its literal meaning. |
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| the repetition of constant sounds, not vowels |
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| the form of a poem in which the lines follow each other without formal grouping, the only breaks dictated by units of meaning |
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| two successive lines usually in the same meter linked by rhyme. |
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| the explicit, literal meaning of a word |
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| poetry fiction or drama having as a primary purpose to teach or preach |
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| English or Shakespearian Sonnet |
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| A sonnet rhyming ababcdcdefefgg. Its content or structure ideally parallels the rhyme scheme falling into three coordinate quatrains and a concluding couplet |
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| the detailed analysis of a literary work |
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| Language employing figures of speech |
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| the basic unit used in the measurement of English verse |
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| the external shape or pattern of a poem, describable without reference to its content |
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| the use of hints or clues to suggest what will happen later in literature |
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| Non- metrical poetry in which the basic rhythmic unit is the line, and which pauses. Line breaks, and formal pattern develop organically from the requirements of the poem rather than from established poetic forms |
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| Exaggeration or overstatement |
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| language that evokes one or all of the five senses |
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| rhyme that occurs within a line |
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| changing the usual order of words |
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| an implied discrepancy between what is said and what is meant |
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| Italian or Petrarchan Sonnet |
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| a sonnet consisting of an octave rhyming abbaabba and a sestet using any arrangement of two or three additional rhymes |
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| a fixed form consisting of five lines of anapestic meter, the first two trimester, the next two diameter, and the last line trimester. Used for humorous or nonsense verse. |
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| comparison of two unlike things using the verb “to be” and not using “like” or “as” |
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| - the regular patterns of accent that underlie metrical verse; measurable repetition of accented syllables in poetry |
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| a figure of speech in which some significant aspect or detail of an experience is used to represent the whole experience |
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| a recurrent thematic element in an artistic or literary work |
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| the emotional atmosphere created in a work of literature, most notably through setting; the emotion created by the work |
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| an eight line stanza or the first eight lines of a sonnet |
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| a serious lyric poem, often of significant length, that usually conforms to an elaborate metrical structure |
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| a word that imitates the sound it represents |
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| contradictory words put together |
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| a kind of truth which at first seems contradictory. |
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| Giving human qualities to animals, objects, or concepts |
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| a prefatory piece of writing usually composed to introduce a drama. |
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| usually a short composition having the intentions of poetry, but written in prose rather than verse |
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| a four line stanza or a four line division of a sonnet marked off by its rhyme scheme |
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| a repeated word, phrase, line, or group of lines, normally at some fixed position in a poem written in stanzaic form |
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| the pattern of rhymed words at the ends of lines |
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| any wavelike occurrence of motion or sound. |
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| a literary tone used to ridicule or make fun of human vice, weakness, or situation, often with the intent of correcting or changing a subject. |
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| six line stanza or the last six lines of a sonnet structured on the Italian model |
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| the time and place in fiction |
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| a fixed form of fourteen lines, normally in iambic pentameter and a rhyme scheme |
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| a unified group of lines in poetry |
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| the internal organization of content in a poem |
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| using an object or action that means something more than its literal meaning |
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| a part that represents the whole |
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| an interlocking rhyme scheme with the pattern aba bcb cdc… |
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| the general idea or insight about life that the writer wishes to express |
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| the attitude a writer takes towards a subject or characters in a story or poem |
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| the total experience communicated by a poem |
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| words that connect ideas and show the relationships between those ideas |
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| this device is used to understate the obvious |
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| an author’s individual way of using language to reflect his or her own personality and attitudes. |
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