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form

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is the name of the text type that the writer uses. For example, scripts, sonnets, novels etc. All of these are different text types that a writer can use. The form of a text is important because it indicates the writer’s intentions, characters or key themes.

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denotative

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Denotation is the objective meaning of a word.

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connotative

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The emotional suggestions of a word, that is not literal.

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blank verse

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verse without rhyme, especially that which uses iambic pentameter.

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metrical feet

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the basic unit of measurement of accentual-syllabic meter. A foot usually contains one stressed syllable and at least one unstressed syllable. The standard types of feet in English poetry are the iamb, trochee, dactyl, anapest, spondee, and pyrrhic (two unstressed syllables).

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couplet

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two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit.

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Petrarchan

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the Petrarchan sonnet is a received form that has 14 lines and a slightly flexible rhyme scheme.

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shakespearean

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Shakespearean or English sonnet has fourteen lines, consisting of three groups of four lines each, followed by a single rhyming couplet.

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Spenserian

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a sonnet form named for the poet Edmund Spenser. A Spenserian sonnet comprises three interlocked quatrains and a final couplet, with the rhyme scheme ABAB BCBC CDCD EE.

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what is a stanza

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More specifically, a stanza usually is a group of lines arranged together in a recurring pattern of metrical lengths and a sequence of rhymes.

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volta

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the volta is the turn of thought or argument: in Petrarchan or Italian sonnets it occurs between the octave and the sestet, and in Shakespearean or English before the final couplet.

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petrachan conceit

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the Petrarchan conceit, which was especially popular with Renaissance writers of sonnets, is a hyperbolic comparison most often made by a suffering lover of his beautiful mistress to some physical object—e.g., a tomb, the ocean, the sun.

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platonic love

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love conceived by Plato as ascending from passion for the individual to contemplation of the universal and ideal. 2 : a close relationship between two persons in which sexual desire is nonexistent or has been suppressed or sublimated.

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verbal irony

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Verbal irony is a figure of speech. The speaker intends to be understood as meaning something that contrasts with the literal or usual meaning of what he says

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situational irony

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The third, and debated, use of irony regards what’s called situational irony. Situational irony involves a striking reversal of what is expected or intended: a person sidesteps a pothole to avoid injury and in doing so steps into another pothole and injures themselves.

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dramatic irony

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the expression of one’s meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect.

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conventional symbol

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In poetry, symbols can be categorized as conventional, something that is generally recognized to represent a certain idea (i.e., a “rose” conventionally symbolizes romance, love, or beauty); in addition, symbols can be categorized as contextual or literary, something that goes beyond a traditional, public meaning (i.e. …

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contextual symbol

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contextual symbol is one that is specific to a particular story because the author creates the symbolic meaning within the context of that literary…

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dynamic character

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Changing

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static character

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A static character is one who doesn’t undergo any significant change in character, personality or perspective over the course of a story.