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Literary Terms Flashcards

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Accentual verse

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Lines have a fixed number of stresses regardless of the number of syllables.

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Accentual-syllabic verse

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Lines have a fixed number of stresses and syllables.

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Accumulative figures of speech

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Figures used to create a list where ideas are summarized (epizeuxis, anaphora, epiphora, symploce, etc.).

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Alliteration

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Repetition of initial consonant sounds. “I bought a bag of big bell peppers.”

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Allusion

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A short reference to a famous person or event

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Amphibrach

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Metric foot. Unstressed-stressed-unstressed.

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Anadiplosis

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Last word of the sentence repeated as the first word in the next sentence.

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Anapaest

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Metric foot. Unstressed-unstressed-stressed.

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Anaphora

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Word/phrase repeated at the beginning of successive sentences.

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Anti-climax

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Figure of speech, opposite of climax. Events or sentences start decreasing in importance.

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Antithesis

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Two opposite ideas put together to achieve contrast. “One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.”

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Antonomasia

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A descriptive phrase replaces a person’s name.

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Aposiopesis

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A sentence is deliberately broken off. The difference from ellipsis is that missing words in aposiopesis can’t be guessed from the context.

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Apostrophe

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Addressing an absent person, inanimate object or abstraction. “Seven, you’re my favorite number.”

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Assonance

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Repetition of initial vowel sounds. “The cat had a snack”.

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Asyndeton

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Opposite of polysyndeton. Conjunctions are omitted. “I came. I saw. I conquered.”

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Auditory imagery

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The use of words to describe sounds.

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Author-oriented approach

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Analyzing the text with the author’s biography in mind and its subconscious influence on the text.

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Ballad

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Traditional poetic form. Often set to music. Usually talk about the supernatural, love, courage and end tragically.

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Ballad stanza

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Four lines. Second and last lines usually rhyme. 1st and 3rd lines have four stressed syllables, 2nd and 4th have three.

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Black comedy

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Deals with tragic and distressing events in a humorous way.

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Blank verse

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A verse that uses iambic pentameter. Without rhyme.

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Blue comedy

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Similar to black comedy. It deals with taboo topics.

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Burlesque

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A parody. An absurd exaggerated imitation of something.

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Caesura

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A break between words within a line.

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Catalexis

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Missing syllable at the beginning or end of a line.

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Chiasmus

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Two sentences where the 2nd is the reversal of the 1st one. “Don’t live to work, work to live.”

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Consonance

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Repetition of consonant sounds. “He struck a streak of bad luck.”

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Cliche

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A phrase or an opinion that is being overused.

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Climax

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Events or sentences increasing in importance.

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Context-oriented approach

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Examining the historical, political and social background to put the text into perspective.

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Dactyl

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Metric foot. Stressed-unstressed-unstressed.

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Detective fiction

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Subgenre of crime fiction. Example is Sherlock Holmes.

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Double entendre

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An expression that can be understood in two ways, one of which is sexual.

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Dramatic monologue

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A poem written in the form of a speech or narrative. The speakers reveals what they are like through speaking about a particular event.

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Elegy

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A type of poem mourning the dead.

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Ellipsis

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A simple omittance of words. They can be easily guessed from the context.

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Elliptical figures of speech

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Figures of speech used to omit something (aposiopesis, ellipsis, paralipsis, asyndeton).

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Enjambement

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The sentence continues without a pause into the next line.

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Epanalepsis

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The same word/phrase repeats at the end of the sentence.

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Epic

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A long poem. About heroic deeds and events. Usually include a muse. Supernatural imagery, elevated language and extensive descriptions of characters.

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Epiphora

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Opposite of anaphora. Word/phrase repeated at the end of successive sentences.

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Epistolary novel

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A novel written as a series of letters. Example is Dracula by Bram Stoker.

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Epithet

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The adjective or phrase that expresses a quality of the person. “Alexander the Great” or “Ivan the Terrible”.

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Epizeuxis

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A word is immediately repeated for emphasis.

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