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Closed form poetry
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Theme
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first person
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Plot
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Pun
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Setting
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Imagery
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Novel
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Protagonists
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Monometer
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Iambic pentameter
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Masculine rhyme
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Symbol
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Internal rhyme
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Trochaic meter
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Shakespearean sonnet
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Structured with three quatrains (four-lined stanzas) and a couplet (two rhyming lines)
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Sestina
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Feminine rhyme
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Diction
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Limerick
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A five-line closed form poem written in anapest meter and containing a rhyme scheme: aabba.
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Tone
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Rhyme scheme
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Non-fiction literature
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Style
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Essay
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Apostrophe
A poetic device in which the speaker directly addresses a person or thing that is not there
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Poetry
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Climax
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Meter
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Heroic couplets
Rhyming pairs of petic lines written in iambic pentameter that are generally self containing
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Motifs
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Short stories were popular beginning in the 19th century
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Mimesis
The Greek word for "imitation".
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Anapest
A metrical foot used in poetry consisting of two unstressed syllables followed by one stressed syllable.
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Dynamic characters
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Couplet
Poetic form containing a two line stanza
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Stock symbols
Objects that commonly represent a certain idea, subject, or feeling.
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Farce
A type of comedy that humors the audience using exaggerated, unlikely situations and characters
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Thought
The author's intended message and the idea he or she chooses to present. (Non-fiction literature)
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Euripides
Greek playwrite (480-405 B.C.) who wrote dramas including The Bacchae, Electra, The Trojan Women, and Helen, and is remembered for his addition of the technique of "deus ex machina" into drama.
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Sophocles
Greek playwright (496-406 B.C.) who wrote Antigone, Electra, and Oedipus Tyrannus and is remembered for his addition of a third speaking actor into drama and moving the action away from the chorus and toward human interaction
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Aristotle
GInfluential Greek philosopher (384-322 B.C.) who wrote on a variety of subjects, such as government, ethics, and poetry, laid the foundation for literary criticism, and authored works including Rhetoric, Poetics, Categories.
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Virgil
A classical Roman poet (70-19 B.C.) who authored the famous epic poem, the Aeneid.
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Slant rhyme
Imperfect or partial rhyme
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Simile
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Dramatic monologue
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Crisis
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Subplots
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Villanelle
A poetic form originating from poems on ocurt life and love and containing five three-line stanzas (tercets) followed by a four-line stanza (quatrain).
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Speculative essay
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Shakespeare
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Metonymy
A figure of speech in which a word substituted for another word in order to bring mind represent associated.
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Sarcasm
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Point of view
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Alliteration
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Resolution
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Exposition
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Prose
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Personification
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Consonance
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Initiation story
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Comedy
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High comedy
A form of comedy that contains natural characters and realistic behavior that is not exaggerated
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Ballads
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Literal imagery
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Syntax
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Naturalism
A movement that strove to reproduce the everyday realities of life on stage such by using detailed sets, the vernacular of commoners, and depicting the dilemmas of ordinary people and they are shaped by society.
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End Rhyme
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Assonance
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Satire
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Complication
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When reading a poem do NOT
Focus most on examing the poem piece by piece, spending less time on examining it as a whole
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Figurative language
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Caesura
A poetic device denoting a pause within a line of poetry that may or may not be marked punctuation (/) to cause the pause
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Open form poems
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Drama
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Oxymoron
A figure of speech that joins two contradictory or dissimilar terms
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Alexandrine
A metered poetic line that contains twelve syllables
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Enjambment
When a writer intentionally runs liens of oetry together and breaks a thought, phrase, or sentence at the end of the line and carries that thought, phrase, or sentence onto the next
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Irony
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Autobiography
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Sonnet
A type of closed form poetry that contains fourteen liens
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Epigram
A type of closed form poetry that is short, concise, and often witty or pessimistic
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Argumentative essays
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Romance
A word that originally applied to literary works based on adventures, such as those involving the heroic undertaking of knights, and included narratives in verse or poetic language instead of prose
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Bathos
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Epic
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Onomatopoeia
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Denotation
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Horatian
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Allegorical characters
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Free verse
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Stanza
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Verse
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Satire
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Trochee
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Hubris
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Hyperbole
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Metaphor
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Realism
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Expository essay
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Dactyl
One stressed, two unstressed syllables
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Synecdoche
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Metrical Foot
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Lyrics
A form of poetry that does not tell stories but, rather, focuses on emotions, feelings, or perceptions, often related to nature.
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Allusion
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Accentual meter
A meter that is generally seen only in Old English poetry and contains four stressed syllables in one line without regard to the number of unstressed syllables.
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Petrarchan sonnet
Structure conains an octave (eight lines0 that is followed by a sestet (six lines)
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Conceit
An extended metaphor or other form of comparison between two very unlikely objects
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Round characters
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Mode
An approach used in literature that isn't connected to one certain genre but rather, refers to the writer's aim or outlook when composing a literary work.
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Connotation
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History
A form of play
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Juvenalian satire
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Tragedy
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Narrative
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Foil characters
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Figurative imagery
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Exposition
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