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| 1. The repetition of the same or similar sounds at the beginning of words. |
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1. A metrical foot of 3 syllables
2. 2 short (unstressed) syllables followed by 1 long (stressed) syllables
Example: "to the moon" or "seventeen" |
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1. Figure of speech
2. Words and phrases with opposite meanings are balanced against each other
Example: "Many are called, but few are chosen"
"I do not love you less I just love them more." |
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1. The repetition or a pattern of similar vowel sounds to create internal
rhyming within phrases and sentences. |
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| 1. A form of verse, usually set to music, that tells a story similar to a folktale or legend and also has repeated refrain. |
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1. unrhymed iambic pentameter (regular meter and no rhyme
2. Shakesepeare wrote in this style. |
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1. an audible pause that breaks up a line or verse
2. Most times indicated by punctuation marks. |
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1. Medieval italian lyric poem
2. 5-7 stanzas
3. hendecasyllabic (11 syllables).
4. 7-20 lines
5. shorter last stanza (envoy) |
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1. Old french songs/epic poems about heroic deeds
2. Appeared at the beginning of French Literature
3. 11th-14th century
Example: Charlamange |
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1. High regard to classical antiquity: Greeks, Romans, etc.
2. literature is characterized by formality, simplicity, and emotional restraint. |
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| 1. An extended metaphor (fanciful image)that contrasts too very unsimilar things |
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| 1. stylistic device that uses the repetition of similar consonant sounds in very short succession. |
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1. A pair of lines of verse.
2. same rhyme, length, and form a complete thought. |
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1. A metrical foot of 3 syllables
2. 1 long (stressed), followed by 2 short (unstressed) |
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| 1. A poem that laments the death of a person, or a sad or thoughtful idea. |
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| 1. lengthy narrative poem dealing with herioc deeds of a nation or culture. |
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1. A very short witty poem
2.Literary device |
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| 1. A short text honoring the deceased. |
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1. Form of a poem that is written for a bride.
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1. A rhyme that occurs in a final unstressed syllable.
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| 1. verbal expression in which the text is arranged to achieve a particular effect. |
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| 1. Two or more syllables that are used to make up the smalleset unit of a poem. |
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| 1. Rhymed or unrhymed poem that has no set meter. |
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1. 5,7,5 syllable structure
2. 3 unrhymed lines
3. reflect nature |
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1. A line of poetry that has 7 metrical feet.
2. 14-21 syllables |
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1. A stanza composed of two rhymed lines in iambic pentameter
2. Used for epic and narrative poetry |
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| 1. A line of poetry using 6 metrical feet |
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1. exaggeration used to emphasize idea
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| 1. A metrical foot of 1 or 2 syllables, one short syllable (unstressed) and the second long (stressed) |
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1. A type of meter in poetry, in which there are five iambs to a line.
2.Shakesspeare wrote this way. |
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| Either a short poem depicting a peaceful, idealized country scene, or a long poem that tells a story about heroic deeds or extraordinary events set in the distant past. |
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| A light, humorous poem of five usually anapestic lines with the rhyme scheme of aabba. |
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| A poem, such as a sonnet or an ode, that expresses the thoughts and feelings of the poet. A lyric poem may resemble a song in form or style. |
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| A rhyme that occurs in a final stressed syllable: cat/hat, desire/fire, observe/deserve. |
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| A figure of speech in which two things are compared, usually by saying one thing is another, or by substituting a more descriptive word for the more common or usual word that would be expected. Some examples of metaphors: the world's a stage, he was a lion in battle, drowning in debt, and a sea of troubles. |
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| The arrangement of a line of poetry by the number of syllables and the rhythm of accented (or stressed) syllables. |
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| A figure of speech in which one word is substituted for another with which it is closely associated. For example, in the expression The pen is mightier than the sword, the word pen is used for “the written word,” and sword is used for “military power.” |
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| is a story that is created in a constructive format describing fictional or non-fictional events. |
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| A lyric poem that is serious and thoughtful in tone and has a very precise, formal structure. John Keats's “Ode on a Grecian Urn” is a famous example of this type of poem. |
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| is a word that imitates or suggests the source of the sound that it describes |
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| A type of poetry consisting of 10- or 11-syllable lines arranged in 8-line “octaves” with the rhyme scheme abababcc. |
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| A poem that depicts rural life in a peaceful, idealized way. |
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| A line of poetry that has 5 metric feet |
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| A figure of speech in which things or abstract ideas are given human attributes: dead leaves dance in the wind, blind justice. |
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| type of literature written in meter |
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| stanza or poem with 4 lines |
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| line or group of lines that are repeated throughout a poem |
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| The occurrence of the same or similar sounds at the end of two or more words. |
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| consists of seven lines, usually in iambic pentameter. The rhyme scheme is a-b-a-b-b-c-c. In practice, the stanza can be constructed either as a terza rima and two couplets (a-b-a, b-b, c-c) or a quatrain and a tercet (a-b-a-b, b-c-c). |
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| validated strong emotion as an authentic source of aesthetic experience, placing new emphasis on such emotions as trepidation, horror and terror and awe—especially that which is experienced in confronting the sublimity of untamed nature and its picturesque qualities, both new aesthetic categories. It elevated folk art |
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| mark the metrical patterns of a line of poetry |
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| is a Japanese form of short poetry similar to haiku in construction: three lines with 17 or fewer total "on" (often translated as syllables, but see the article on onji for distinctions). Senryū tend to be about human foibles while haiku tend to be about nature, and senryū are often cynical or darkly humorous while haiku are more serious. Unlike haiku, senryū do not include a kireji (cutting word), and do not generally include a kigo, or season word. |
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| compares two unlike things |
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| a lyric poem with strict rhyming pattern |
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| a metrical foot consisting of two long syllables, as determined by syllable weight in classical meters, or two stressed syllables, as determined by stress in modern meters. |
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| unit within a larger poem |
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| substitution of a part for whole, species for genus |
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1. 57577 syllable line scheme
2. usually compares nature, deep emotion, and has multiple layers of meaning. Japnese poetry form of Waka. |
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a rhyming verse stanza form that consists of an interlocking three-line rhyme scheme. It was first used by the Italian poet Dante Alighieri.
2. A-B-A, B-C-B, C-D-C, D-E-D pattern |
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| is a line of four metrical feet |
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| using a word in a way other than what is considered its literal or normal form |
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figure of speech that combines normnally contradictory terms like
"jumbo shrimp" |
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| follows the lead through the climax to the end of the story and serves as the conclusion. |
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| when someone says something "not sarcastic" but is really being critical and meaning something else |
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| something that is told but is not always what happens |
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| an early modern English type of verse having four stresses but no prevailing type of foot and no regular number of syllables |
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| a one stanza poem of eight lines. Its rhyme scheme is ABaAabAB and often all lines are in iambic tetrameter: the first, fourth and seventh lines are identical, as are the second and final lines, thereby making the initial and final couplets identical as well. |
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| something such as an object, picture, written word, sound, or particular mark that represents something else by association, resemblance, or convention |
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| a kind of logical argument in which one proposition (the conclusion) is inferred from two others (the premises) of a certain form. |
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| poetic rhythm designed to imitate the rhythm of natural speech. It is constructed from feet in which the first syllable is stressed and may be followed by a variable number of unstressed syllables |
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monologue on stage
said by actor alone expressing his inner thougths |
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| narrowed and realistic depicition of real people and real problems. |
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| is the name given to the second division of an Italian sonnet (as opposed to an English or Spenserian Sonnet), which must consist of an octave, of eight lines, succeeded by a sestet, of six lines. |
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| the study of sign processes (semiosis), or signification and communication, signs and symbols, and is usually divided into three branches: |
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| surrounding environment, place, time, that a story takes place |
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| literary style that uses misevents and depictions of horrible events to laugh at and be critical of |
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| repetition of word, phrase, idea |
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| a brief, succinct story, in prose or verse, that illustrates a moral or religious lesson. It differs from a fable in that fables use animals, plants, inanimate objects, and forces of nature as characters, while parables generally feature human characters. It is a type of analogy.[1] |
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| depicts the life of shepherds, often in a highly idealised manner. It may also be used as a noun (a pastoral) to describe a single work of pastoral poetry, music or drama |
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| A couplet of the Romantic period with run-on lines, in which the thought was carried beyond the rhyming lines of the couplet. Ottava Rima - Originally Italian, a stanza of eight lines of heroic verse, rhyming abababcc. |
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| verse form consisting of eight lines of iambic pentameter (in English) or of hendecasyllables (in Italian). The most common rhyme scheme for an octave is abba abba. |
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| in poetry is a line of eight metrical feet. |
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| religious play discussing the magic of religious stuff yeah |
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| theme that runs through a text that unifies it |
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| long passage said by one character about whats going on |
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| aesthetic style in which magical elements or illogical scenarios appear in an otherwise realistic or even "normal" setting. It has been widely used in relation to literature, art, and film. |
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| expression, word, or phrase that has a figurative meaning that is comprehended in regard to a common use of that expression that is separate from the literal meaning or definition of the words of which it is made.[ |
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| couplet consisting of two rhymed lines of iambic pentameter and written in an elevated style |
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| one or more lines of verse containing seven metrical feet (usually fourteen or twenty-one syllables). |
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| a literary technique used by many different authors to provide clues for the reader to be able to predict what might occur later on in the story. In other words, it is a literary device in which an author drops hints about the plot and what may come in the near future or, in other words, the plot developments to come later in the story. |
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| A farce is a comedy which aims to entertain the audience by means of unlikely, extravagant, and improbable situations, disguise and mistaken identity, verbal humour of varying degrees of sophistication, which may include sexual innuendo and word play, and a fast-paced plot whose speed usually increases, culminating in an ending which often involves an elaborate chase scene |
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| grammatical gender, is a term that refers to the final syllable or suffixed letters that mark words as feminine. |
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| It took the form of a preciously ornate and sophisticated style that employed a wide range of literary devices such as antitheses, alliterations, repetitions, rhetorical questions and others. Classical learning and remote knowledge of all kinds were displayed. Euphuism was fashionable in the 1580s, but never previously or subsequently. |
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| the omission of one or more sounds (such as a vowel, a consonant, or a whole syllable) in a word or phrase, producing a result that is easier for the speaker to pronounce. Sometimes, sounds may be elided for euphonic effect. |
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| an idealised but flawed character exemplified in the life and writings of Lord Byron, characterised by his ex-lover Lady Caroline Lamb as being "mad, bad, and dangerous to know".[1] The Byronic hero first appears in Byron's semi-autobiographical epic narrative poem Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (1812-1818). |
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| type of poetry, distinguished by having a regular meter, but no rhyme. In English, the meter most commonly used with blank verse has been iambic pentameter |
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| biographical stories that relate poignant times in ones life |
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| is a metrical foot used in formal poetry. In classical quantitative meters it consists of two short syllables followed by a long one (as in a-na-paest); in accentual stress meters it consists of two unstressed syllables followed by one stressed syllable. It may be seen as a reversed dactyl. This word comes from the Greek ανάπαιστος, anápaistos, literally "struck back" (a dactyl reversed), from 'ana-' + '-paistos', verbal of παίειν, paíein: to strike. |
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| using one subject to easily explain difficult concepts of another subject |
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| using other literary works or art forms and referncing them in the text |
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| repeating of similar constance at the beginning of words in close repetition |
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1. a type of poem usually with 3 stanzas with 7-10 lines and a last stanza of 5-6 lines.
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