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Close Reading Midterm Flashcards

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Apostrophe

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Addressing an absent person or thing

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Diacope

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Repetition of the same root word

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Epizeuxis

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When words are repeated for emphasis

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Clymax, or Gradatio

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Repeating one word, then another, then another

“She abandoned religion for mesmerism, mesmerism for politics, and politics for…”

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Caesura

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A pause in a line of poetry that is formed by the rhythms of natural speech rather than by metrics

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End Stops

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When a line of poetry ends with a period or definitive punctuation mark

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Imagery

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Visually descriptive or figurative language

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Personification

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Giving an inanimate object or concept human charateristics

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Metaphor

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When a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.

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Enjambment

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When a sentence continues onto another line of poetry without punctuation

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Contrast

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The differences between two or more things

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Alliteration/Consonance

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Repetition of the same initial consonant sound in adjacent or nearby words, especially at the beginning of str

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Sibilance

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Repetition of the ‘s’ sound

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Repetition

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When something repeats.

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Allusion

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A device which works between texts rather than wholly within individual texts

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Literary trope/ Convention

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The use of figurative language for artistic effect such as using a figure of speech

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Genre

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A way of organizing cultural products into different kinds

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Diction

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Word choice

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Rhyme Scheme

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A regular pattern of end rhymes in the stanzas of a poem

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Speaker

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The narrative voice in the poem. Not always the author.

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Petrarchan Sonnet

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Octave and Sestet with a volta separating them.

Rhyme: ABBA ABBA CDE CDE

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English (Shakespearean) Sonnet

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3 Quatrains and a heroic couplet. ABAB CDCD EFEF GG

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Meter

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The division of poetry into lines based on beats and offbeats.

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Syntax

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Sentence Structure

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Anaphora
Repetition of the same word or words at the start of successive phrases, sentences, or lines.
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Intertexuality
Texts broader than literature or even writing
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Rhythm
Regular Repetition
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Rising Rhythm
A poetic rhythm whose units 'rise' in stress from an unstressed syllable. Iambic Pentameter. (unstressed)(stressed)
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Rising Duple
one-TWO, one-TWO | Iambic
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Rising Triple
one-two-THREE, one-two-THREE | Anapestic
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Falling Rhythm
A poetic rhythm whose units 'fall' in stress from a stressed syllable.
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Falling Duple
ONE-two, ONE-two | Trochaic
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Falling Triple
ONE-two-three, ONE-two-three | Dactylic
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Prosody
Analysis of meter, rhythm, line, and stanza
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Scansion
Analysis of stress and rhythm in patterns
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Masculine Rhyme (or ending)
Monosyllabic rhymes. | Ends on a stress
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Feminine Rhyme (or ending)
Polysyllabic rhymes | Ends on unstressed
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Metrical Feet
The basic unit of measurement of syllabic meter. A foot usually contains one stressed syllable and at least one unstressed syllable. (Iamb, trochee, dactyl, anapest, spondee, and pyrrhic)
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Line Length
``` Shows the number of feet per line Monometer (1) Dimeter (2) Trimeter (3) Tetrameter (4) Pentameter (5) Hexameter (6) Heptameter (7) Octameter (8) ```
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Blank Verse
Unrhymed iambic pentameter
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Heroic Couplets
2 lines of rhymed iambic pentameter
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End Rhyme
Two or more words that look like rhymes to the eye, but do not actually rhyme.
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Eye Rhyme
When a poem has lines ending with words that rhyme.
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Internal Rhyme
A rhyme between words that are within the verse line.
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Free Verse
Unstructured poetry
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Double Syntax
Words or phrases can be taken as belonging grammatically either with what comes before or with what comes before or with what comes after it
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Metronomy
Change of name, where one thing is named by another thing closely associated with it
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Tenor (metaphors)
What is being discussed
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Vehicle
The metaphorical term
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Ground
Similarities between Tenor and vehicle
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Simile
Where one thing is explicitly compared to another thing, using like or as
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Explicit Metaphor
Both the Tenor and Vehicle are present | “An Englishman’s home is his castle.”
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Implicit Metaphor
Only the Vehicle is present | “We made two surgical strikes this afternoon.”
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Ploce
The repetition of a word or phrase to gain special emphasis or to indicate an extension of meaning
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Polyptoton
Repeating a word in a different form
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Antanaclasis
Repeating a word whose meaning changes in the second instance.
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Conduplicato
When the key word or words in one phrase, clause, or sentence is/are repeated at or very near the beginning of successive sentences
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Epanalepsis
The repetition of the initial word (or words) of a clause or sentence at the end of that same clause or sentence.
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Periphrasis
Roundabout way of saying something, using more words that strictly necessary
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Irony
Which what appears, on the surface, to be the case, differs radically from what is actually the case
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Verbal Irony
When you say one thing and mean another
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Romantic Irony
The narrator of a literary work creates an illusion of reality but then destroys the illusion by revealing that he is arbitrarily making up the story as he goes
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Dramatic Irony
When the audience knows more than the speaker
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Ethos
An appeal to ethics
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Pathos
An appeal to emotion
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Asyndeton
The omission or absence of a conjunction between parts of a sentence
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Abiguity
When a poem or a passage can be read in more than one way.
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Exordium
The introduction of a speech where one announces the subjects
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Isocolon
A series of similarly structured elements having the same length. A kind of parallelism
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Mesodiplosis
Repetition of the same word or words in the middle of successive sentences
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Auxesis
Arranging words or clauses in a sequence of increasing force or size
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Antithesis
The juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideas

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