E List Literary Devices Flashcards

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writing that departs from the narrative or dramatic mode and instructs the reader how to think or feel about the events of a story or the behavior of a character

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editorializing

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a lyric poem that laments the dead

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elegy

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a form of poetry that comments on a work of art in another genre, such as a painting or a piece of music

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ekphrastic poetry

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the omission of an unstressed vowel or syllable to preserve the meter of a line of poetry; the omitted syllable or vowel is replaced by an apostrophe

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elision

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line that concludes with punctuation that marks a pause; the line is completely meaningful in itself, unlike run-on lines, which require the reader to move to the next line to grasp the poet’s complete thought

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end-stopped line

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rhyme at the end of two or more lines of poetry

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end rhyme

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a run-on line of poetry in which logical and grammatical sense carries over from one line into the next

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enjambment

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a long narrative poem that records the adventures of a hero; epics typically chronicle the origins of a civilization and embody its central values

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epic

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a short, witty statement designed to surprise an audience or reader

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epigram

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a quotation preceding a work of literature that helps set the text’s mood or suggest its themes

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epigraph

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a character’s transformative moment of realization

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epiphany

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the plot develops through a series of causally related episodes which build through rising action to a climax and then to a resolution (denouement)

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episodic novel

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the omission from speech or writing of a word or words that are superfluous or able to be understood from contextual clues

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elipsis

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literature written purely for entertainment, with little or no attempt to provide insights into the true nature of human life or behavior

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escape literature

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a poem, speech, or other work written in a great praise of someone, usually a person no longer living

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eulogy

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a smooth, pleasant-sounding choice and arrangement of sounds

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euphony

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the rhythmic expectation set up by the basic meter of a poem

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expected rhyme

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contextual and background info told to readers (rather than shown through action) about the characters, plot, setting, and situation

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exposition

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a figure of speech (usually metaphor, simile, personification, or apostrophe) sustained or developed through a considerable number of lines or through a whole poem

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extended/sustained figure

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in metrical verse, extra unaccented syllables added at the beginnings or endings of lines; may be either a feature of the metrical form of a poem or occur as exceptions to the form

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extra-metrical syllables

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a rhyme that only works because the words look the same

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eye/sight rhyme

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a metaphor that continues over several lines or throughout an entire literary work

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extended metaphor