eplication-lyric poetry

Question 1

explication

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act of interpreting or discovering the meaning of a text, usually involves close reading and special attention to figurative language

Question 2

fable

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a very short story told in prose or poetry that teaches a practical lesson about how to succeed in life

Question 3

farce

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a type of comedy in which ridiculous and often stereotyped characters are involved in silly, far-fetched situations

Question 4

figurative language

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words which are inaccurate if interpreted literally, but are used to describe. similes and metaphors are common forms.

Question 5

flashback

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a scene that interrupts the normal chronological sequence of events in a story to depict something that happened at an earlier time.

Question 6

foil

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a character who acts as contrast to another character. often a funny side kick to the dashing hero, or a villain contrasting the hero.

Question 7

foreshadowing

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the use of hints and clues to suggest what will happen later in a plot

Question 8

free verse

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poetry that does not conform to a regular meter or rhyme scheme

Question 9

hyperbole

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a figure of speech that hses an incredible exaggeration or overstatement, for effect

Question 10

hypotactic

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sentence marked by the use of connecting words between clauses or sentences, explicitly showing the logical or other relations between them ex i am tired because i am hot

Question 11

imagery

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the use of language to evoke a picture or a concrete sensation of a person, a thing, or an experience

Question 12

inversion

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the reversal of the normal word order in a sentence or phrase

Question 13

irony

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a discrepancy between appearances and reality

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verbal irony

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occurs when someone says one thing but really means something else

Question 15

situational irony

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takes place when there is a discrepancy between what is expected to happen, or what would be appropriate to happen, and what really does happen

Question 16

dramatic irony

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is so called because it is often used on stage. a character in the play or story thinks one thing is true, but the audience or reader knows better

Question 17

juxtaposition

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poetic and rhetorical device in which normally unassociated ideas, words, or phrases are placed next to one another, creating an effect of surprise and wit “the apparition of these faces in a crowd;/petals on a wet, black bough.” also a form of contrast by which writers call attention to dissimilar ideas or images or metaphors “injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere”

Question 18

litotes

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a form of understatement in which the positive form is emphasized through the negation of a negative form “…the wearers of petticoat and farthingale…stepping forth into the public ways, and wedging their not unsubstantial persons, if occasion were, into the throng…”

Question 19

local colour

Answer 19

a term applied to fiction or poetry which tends to place special emphasis on a particular setting, including its customs, clothing, dialect, and landscape