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– Characters, actions, and setting symbolically represent an idea, moral, or political or religious principles.

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Allegory

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Repetition of the same consonant sounds in two or more words.

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Alliteration

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A direct or indirect reference to a person, place, thing, event, or idea in literature.

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Allusion

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a balanced statement; opposite meanings are balanced against each other.

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Antithesis

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to turn away from the general audience of a work to address a specific person by oh, o

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Apostrophe

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The repetition of vowel sounds in stressed syllables.

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Assonance

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– A narrative poem that tells a story

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Ballad

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Iambic pentameter without rhyme. closest to the natural rhythms of English speech.

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Blank Verse

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– A pause occurring in a line of poetry. notate a caesura with the “double pipe” sign: ||

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Caesura

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An inversion of the second of two parallel phrases

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Chiasmus

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An expression that has lost its freshness or appeal due to overuse.

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Cliché

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moment of greatest intensity or emotional tension, usually marks a turning point in the plot.

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Climax

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– sets up an unusual, exaggerated, or elaborate parallel between two different things.

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Conceit

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The struggle or tension within the plot between opposing forces.

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Conflict

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the outcome or resolution of the plot.

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Denouement

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A writer’s specific choice of words which combine to create meaning.

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Diction

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story or play that focuses on and resolves some universal problem or situation.

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Drama

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  • the repetition of key words, sounds, syllables, lines or ideas for effect.
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Echo

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A formal poem lamenting about the dead.

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Elegy

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a natural pause indicated by punctuation such as a period or comma at the end of a line.

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End-stop

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when a sentence ‘steps over’ a line break into the next line without pause.

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Enjambment

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A long narrative poem about the deeds of a hero, often set in a past

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Epic

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Originally a brief poem, usually solemn, short poem with a cutting remark at the end.

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Epigram

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Mild or indirect words replacing harsher or more direct words

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Euphemism

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describe something as one thing when it is another; opposite of literal language.

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Figures of Speech

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the basic unit of rhythm in poetry consisting of a group of two or three syllables.

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Foot

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flowing lines, usually unrhymed, that vary in length and with no fixed meter.

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Free Verse

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A type of literature

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Genre

29
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Two lines of rhyming iambic pentameter.

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Heroic Couplet

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Exaggeration or overstatement used to emphasize a point.

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Hyperbole

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Descriptive sensory words and specific details that illustrate or “paint a picture” for readers.

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Imagery

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a contrast between the intent and the literal meaning of words or action.

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Irony

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a type of understatement which uses a double negative as a form of understatement.

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Litotes

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good guys against bad guys in scenes of sensational action but ends happily.

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Melodrama

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A figure of speech that draws implicit comparison between two unlike things

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Metaphor

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– the sound a poem makes based on patterns of syllables and stresses in each line.

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Meter

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a phrase or word is substituted for one which is closely related to it.

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Metonymy

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emotional response that the writer wishes to evoke in the reader through a story

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Mood

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A lyrical poem of high emotions.

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Ode

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The use of words or passages that imitate sounds.

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Onomatopoeia

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combines two contradictory terms in a surprising and descriptive way.

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Oxymoron

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A statement that seems self-contradictory or even absurd, but is used to demonstrate a truth.

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Paradox

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inanimate objects or abstract concepts are given human qualities.

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Personification

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The ordinary language of speaking or writing, without meter.

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Prose

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representation of objects, actions, or social conditions as they really are.

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Realism

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using syllables more than once. unify both poetry and prose. structure a literary work.

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Repetition

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Repetition of the same sound in words or lines.

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Rhyme

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occurs when the last sound in the line rhymes

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End-rhyme

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occurs when sounds within the line rhyme

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Internal rhyme

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the pattern of the end-rhymes in a poem or stanza.

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Rhyme scheme

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refers to words that sound similar, but do not fully rhyme

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Near or slant rhyme

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words that look like they should rhyme because of spelling, but do not

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Eye rhyme

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is a rhyme of syllables where stressed and the following unstressed

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Feminine rhyme

54
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a rhyme of syllables where the final syllables are stressed

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Masculine rhyme

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pair of successive lines with end-rhymes; unit of verse has 2 lines with same rhyme and meter.

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Couplet

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– An unsophisticated or heavy-handed form of verbal irony

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Sarcasm

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irony, sarcasm, wit, and ridicule to expose and criticize the follies and vices

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Satire

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A figure of speech that draws an explicit comparison between two unlike things by using words

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Simile

59
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A poem typically consisting of fourteen lines.

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Sonnet

60
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a unit of structure in a poem separated by blank space; paragraphs of a poem.

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Stanza

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represents or stand in; concrete image can express an emotion or abstract idea

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Symbol/Symbolism

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a part represents the whole or the whole represents a part.

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Synecdoche

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central meaning or dominant idea of a work. unifying point around elements are developed.

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Theme

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– the attitude in which an author expresses his idea.

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Tone

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Generally, the structural form of a verse, as revealed by scansion. Identification of verse structure includes the name of the metrical type and the name designating number of feet:

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Versification

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