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Asselta - Terms - Midterm Flashcards

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A reference to history, the Bible, art, or literature.

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Allusion

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Noun or pronoun, which explains another noun or pronoun.

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Appositive

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A tale in verse or pros, in which the characters represent an abstract idea or moral quality.

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Allegory

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Repetition of an initial consonant of a word in a line.

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Alliteration

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A comparison between two objects for the purpose of showing similarity.

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Analogy

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A poetic foot of two unstressed, followed by one stressed syllable.

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Anapest

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The person who opposes the protagonist. Always starts the conflict.

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Antagonist

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The balance of two contrasting thoughts, words, or phrases.

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Antithesis

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A poetic device where the author addresses a place or thing as it was present in the room.

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Apostrophe

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Speech in plays where the comment is intended for the ears of the audience only, not the others on stage. One of the four Shakespearian Conventions.

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Aside

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A poem that tells a story, usually in a four line stanza, with the 2nd and 4th line rhyming.

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Ballad

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A poem that tells a story, usually in a four line stanza, with the 2nd and 4th line rhyming. The author is unknown.

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Folk Ballad

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A poem that tells a story, usually in a four line stanza, with the 2nd and 4th line rhyming. The author is known.

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Literary Ballad

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Poetic lines of emphasized iambic pentameter .

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Blank Verse

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A break or pause in a line of poetry.

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Cesura

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A section or division of a long poem.

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Canto

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The decisive point in a work. The greatest point of intensity that determines the outcome. Usually near the end of a work.

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Climax

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18
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Dealing with social intrigues of a polished and sophisticated society. The humor stems from the characters’ violation of social conventions and decorum, and from the witty dialogue. Also known as Drawing Room Comedy or British Humor.

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Comedy of Manners

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Center of all literature. Clash of viewpoints, Struggle around which the plot revolves. Problem of the protagonist.

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Conflict

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20
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Repetition of consonant sounds in a word.

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Consonance

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Poetic foot of one stressed, followed by two unstressed.

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Dactyl

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22
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Formal poem concerning death of an individual.

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Elegy

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23
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Sermon at a funeral.

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Eulogy

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Consisting of three quatrains and a couplet.

  1. All sonnets are 14 lines.
  2. Quatrains state problem.
  3. Couplet solves problem.
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Elizabethan Sonnet

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A brief, witty pointed covenant.

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Epigram

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A short poem and memory of someone who has died, written on a tombstone.

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Epitaph

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27
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A piece of non-fiction pros that express a personal POV:

  1. Formal - Dignified and impersonal in tone. Seeks to instruct or persuade.
  2. Informal - Conversational and relaxed. Can deal with any topic.
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Essay

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28
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Part of a story that helps reader understand the background of a situation.

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Exposition

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29
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Resolution after climax; denouncement.

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Falling Action

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30
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Language that departs from the strictly literal. Uses figures of speech.

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Figurative Language

31
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Writer can say one things and mean something else.

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Figure of Speech

32
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Two rhymed lines of iambic pentameter.

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Heroic Couplet

33
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A verse line consisting of six lines.

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Hexameter

34
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Exaggeration or overstatement. Used for serious or comedic effect.

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Hyperbole

35
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Verse line with five iambs.

  1. Iambic Pentameter is most common verse in English literature.
  2. Iamb - Unstressed followed by a stressed consonant.
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Iambic Pentameter

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Unrhymed line in one stanza simplifies the rhyme in the following stanza.

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Interlocking Rhyme

37
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A rhyme that occurs within a line of poetry.

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Internal Rhyme

38
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Attitude or way of writing that depends on a discrepancy between what is apparent and what is real.

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Irony

39
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Say one thing and mean something else.

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Verbal Irony

40
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The audience knows something that the characters do not.

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Dramatic Irony

41
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Discrepancy between what happens and what is expected to happen.

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Situation Irony

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Repetition of vowel sounds in a line of poetry.

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Assonance

43
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A story where the hero overcomes his obstacles.

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Comedy

44
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Octave and Sestet.

- Raises question and answers it.

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Italian Sonnet

45
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When things are desired metaphorically rather than direct.

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Kenning

46
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Theatrical entertainment popular among the English Aristocracy in the late 16th and early 17th century; songs, dances, costumes, stage effects, lyric, poetry, play within a play.

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Mosque

47
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Two unlike words compared with no word of comparison.

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Metaphor

48
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Metaphor that compares to startlingly different things.

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Metaphysical Conceit

49
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Regular pattern of rhythm in poetry.

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Meter

50
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Work in which something trivial is viewed humorously be approaching in the grand heroic style of the epic.

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Mock Epic

51
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First eight lines of an Italian Sonnet.

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Octave

52
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Serious, dignified, lyric poem for a special occasion in honor of a person/idea.

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Ode

53
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Sound that suggests meaning.

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Onomatopoeia

54
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Figure of speech that depends on a paradox between two startling different things.

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Oxymoron

55
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Repetition of phrases similar in structure or meaning.

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Parallelism

56
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Something non-human is given human qualities.

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Personification

57
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Hero (central character) in story who faces the conflict.

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Protagonist

58
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Sacred song or lyric.

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Psalm

59
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Poetic stanza of four lines.

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Quatrain

60
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Action that builds to climax.

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Rising Action

61
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Writing that holds human weakness up to ridicule, and seeks to persuade through laughter.

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Satire

62
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Two unlike things compared with “like” or “as.”

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Simile

63
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Lengthy speech in which a speaker ism alone and reveals his innermost thoughts/feelings.

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Soliloquy

64
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Variable poetic meter, one stressed followed by any number of unstressed.

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Sprung Rhythm

65
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Imitation of a characters thoughts.

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Stream of Consciousness

66
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Authors way of writing

  • Word Choice
  • Arrangement
  • Relationship of Sentences
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Style

67
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Metrical line of three feet.

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Trimiter

68
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Metrical line of four feet.

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Tetrameter

69
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Word used to stand for an idea.

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T Symbol

70
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Literary movement when poets worked through symbols.

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Symbolsim

71
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Verse form consisting of three line stanzas in which the middle line of each stanza rhymes with the first and third line in the other two stanzas.

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Terza Rima

72
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A poetic foot stressed followed by unstressed.

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Trochee

73
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Intricately patterned poem with three line stanzas and the final stanza has four lines. First and third lines in the first stanza are used as refrains in succeeding stanzas and form last two lines of poem.

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Villanelle

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