Lit terms 121-135 Flashcards
accent
the stress given a syllable in pronounciation
blank verse
unrhymed iambic pentameter (ten syllables containing five stressed syllables beginning with an unstressed syllable)
Caesura
a pause in the middle of a line of verse created when a thought comes to completion before the end of the line. Often marked with end pronunciation
Dystopia
Opposite of a utopia, it is an imagined place in which everything is unpleasant or bad, typically under totalitarian rule or in an environment-degraded world
feet
basic units of combined unaccented and accented syllables denoted in terms of number and kind
heroic couplet
a pair of lines written in iambic pentameter with perfect end rhyme
magical realism
a type of fiction in which the world appears just as ours in all respects except that very extraordinary things happen without any attempt at explanation
meter
recurrence of rhythmic pattern and regularity in poetry
quatrain
a stanza containing four lines
oxymoron
the combination of two contradictory terms to express a condensed paradox
parody
a composition imitating with ludicrous exactness on a ridiculous subject the style and mannerisms of some serious composition
Prose
Literature that is not written in verse and is not a play
Romanticism
an artistic and intellectual movement with strong emotion
scansion
the use of visual symbols to mark meter
the Enlightenment
reason and scientific advancement
