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the expression of an idea in a roundabout more elegant way

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Periphrastic epithet

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is the repetition of an idea in different words with the same grammatical form

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Variation

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The recurrence of consonant sounds at the beginning of nearby stressed syllables

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Alliteration

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The giving of personal characteristics to something that is not a person

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Personification

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Wandering minstrels

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Scop

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A long, stylized narrative poem celebrating the deeds of a national or ethnic hero.

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Epic

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is a poem that is not long, narrative, dramatic (in the sense of being written to be acted out), or expository (written merely to convey information

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Lyric Poetry

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Instruction in literature

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Didactic

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Originally any poem of solemn meditation. Now it is a formal poem lamenting the death of a particular person or meditating on the subject of death itself.

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Elegy/ Elegiac Poetry

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vivid Anglo Saxon descriptions that serve as word pictures that dramatize the power of the poem

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Kenning

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A standard type or category of literature.

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Genre

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Anglo Saxon concept of fate

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Wyrd

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a short, simple narrative song

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Ballad

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characteristically impersonal, compressed, dramatic, ritualistic in effect, and simple in stanza form.

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Folk Ballad

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A pair of rhymed lines

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Couplet

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The attitude of a work toward its subject.

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Tone

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A stanza of four lines

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Quatrains

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generally includes elements of the supernatural-enchanters, giants, dragons, prophetic visions, magic tokens-and often romantic love, which was subject to special

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Romance

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treats a trivial subject in heroic terms.

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Mock epic

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a connected series of events

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Plot

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the emotion fading a work

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Atmosphere

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A figure of thought that contrasts appearance and reality.

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Hyperbole

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the use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities

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Symbolism

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implies more than what is said

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Understatement

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the substitution of the name of an attribute.

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Metonymy

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A highly artificial literary model which centers on shepherds and idealizes rural settings

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Pastoralism

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Instruction In literature. Writers and critics believe imaginative literature should
have two purposes; to delight and to teach.

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Didacticism

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A lyric poem of fourteen iambic-pentameter lines conventionally rhyming according to one of two patters

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Sonnet

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The first eight lines, called the octave, rhyme abbaabba. The last
six lines called, the sestet may use any combination of two or three new rhymes. For example,
cdcdcd, cdecde, cdecdce. (introduce in England by Sir Thomas Wyatt.)

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Petrarchan or Italian sonnet

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Consists of three quatrains and closing couplets and

rhymes ababcdcdefefgg. (Improvised by the Earl of Surrey and refined by Shakespeare)

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Shakespeare or English Sonnet

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The regular recurrence of accented syllables in a line of poetry. READ AND UNDERSTAND THE FULL DEFINITION GIVEN IN YOUR TEXTBOOK GLOSSARY

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Meter

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Identical sound in corresponding words or phrases. (List and define all types of rhyme from your textbook glossary)

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Rhyme

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A four line stanza, one of the most common stanza forms in English poetry.

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Quatrain

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A seeming contradiction (“Death, thou shalt die”

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Paradox

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The addressing of some nonpersonal (or absent) object as if it were able to reply
(“O, Death, where is they sting.”)

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Apostrophe

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Broadly, the expression of one thing in terms of another. In stricter usage,it is the stated Or implied equivalent of two things. (“I am the bread of life.”)

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Metaphor

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A recurring or emerging idea in a work or literature, A work may have many themes.
It’s major theme is it’s main point , similar to the thesis of an essay. It may explicit (stated ,
outright ) or implicit (it’s concept must be inferred )

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Theme

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A striking and often elaborate comparison carried out in considerable detail

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Conceit

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Unrhymed iambic Pentameter

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Blank Verse

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A speech addressed to an audience by an actor along on stage

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Soliloquy

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A stage device in which a character briefly discloses his thoughts in the presence of other characters who by convention do not hear him.

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Aside

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