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Allegory

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Figurative illustration of truths or generalizations about human conducts by use of symbolic fictional figures and actions.

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Anadiplosis

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Repetition of prominent (usually final) word of w phrase/clause at the beginning of the next, often with extended meaning. Ex) his hands were folded- folded in prayer.

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Anapest

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2 short unaccented syl, one long accented syl. Ex.( intervene

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Anaphora

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Repetition of word or phrase at begin of successive phrases.

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Aphorism

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Brief statement containing important truth or fundamental principle.

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Asyndeton

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Omission of conjunctions that ordinarily join coordinate words/phrases. Ex.) see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.

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Aubade

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Dawn or lovers parting at dawn.

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Bathos

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Descent from lofty/elaborate to commonplace, often used in poetry for effect.

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Blank verse

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Poetry written without rhymes, but which retain a set metric pattern.

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Caesura

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Break/pause in the middle of a line of verse.

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Chiasmus

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Inverted paralleled phrases. Ex.) do not eat to live, but live to eat.

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Conceit

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Elaborate metaphor, often strained/far fetched.

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Consonance

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Pleasing combo of sounds; also rep of consonance at end of lines (boat, night).

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Couplet

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2 successive lines of poetry

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Dactyl

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3 syls, first long and accented, next two short and unaccented.

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Denotation

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Literal dictionary meanings of a word

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Dimeter

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Line of verse containing two metric feet.

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Elegy

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Poem of lament over someone dead. Or reflective sad poem.

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Ellipsis

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Omission of word …

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Encomium

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Speech of high praise

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Enjambment

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Continuation of sense and grammatical construction beyond the end of a line.

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Epistrophe

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Rep of words at end of successive phrases or verses.

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Fable

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Story that teaches moral lesson

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Feminine rhyme

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Rhyme occurring on unaccented final syl.

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Foot

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Unit of rhythm or meter.

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Hamartia

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Tragic Hero’s error of judgement or fatal flaw.

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Heptameter

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Line of verse consisting of 7 metric feet.

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Hyperbole

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Deliberate overstatement (I’d give my arm for a slice of pizza).

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Iamb

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Most common metric foot in English, German, and Russian verse. 2 syls, short unaccented followed by long accented.

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Idyl

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Pastoral poem, picturesque.

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In median res

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Beginning story at crucial point in the middle of a series of events.

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Interior monologue

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External events conveyed indirectly through fictional character’s monologue of thought.

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Litotes

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Understatement in which affirmative is expressed by double negative (not happy).

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Lyric verse

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One of the main groups of poetry (others being narrative and dramatic). Melodic imagery.

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Masculine rhyme

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Rhyme with accented final syl.

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Metaphysical

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Of/relating to group of 17 century poets. Intellectual/ philosophical style, extended metaphors comparing very dissimilar things.

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Meter

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Measure of rhythmic quantity. Groups of syllables at regular intervals in a line of poetry.

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Metonymy

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Substituting one noun to another associated with it (he drank the cup).

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Mock epic

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Satire; treats trivial subject like classic epic

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Motif

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Thematic element recurring frequently in literature

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Octave

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Stanza of 8 lines

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Ode

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Type of lyric or melic verse , usually irregular, long

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Paean

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Hymn of praise/joy

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Parallelism

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Repetition of structural similarities in passages closely connected for rhetorical effect

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Pathetic fallacy

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Personification of nature for eloquent effect (cruel wind)

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Persona

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Speaker/voice of literary work

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Poetics

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Literary study or criticism of poetic theory/practice

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Polysyndeton

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Repetition of conjunctions in close succession (we have men and arms and planes and bombs)

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Prose

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Ordinary language people use in speaking or writing

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Prosody

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Structure of poetry.

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Quatrain

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4 lines of verse, rhyme scheme of abab or abcb

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Scan

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To mark off lines of poetry into rhythmic units for visual representation of their metric structure.

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Sestina

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6 line stanzas; end word of each line repeating in rotating order.

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Sonnet

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14 lines of 5 foot iambic verse.

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Spondee

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2 long or equally accented syls together. (Bread box)

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Stanza forms

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Number of lines in a stanzaic unit (couplet , tercet, quatrain, etc)

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Synecdoche

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Part stands for whole, or whole for part.

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Synesthesia

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Words normally used to describe one sense used to describe another sense (sweet smile).

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Tercet

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3 lines of verse

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Terza Rima

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Verse form consisting of tercets

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Tetra meter

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Line of verse containing 4 metric feet

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Trochee

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Long accented syl followed by short unaccented syl

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Trope

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Intentional use of a word or expression figuratively.

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Verse paragraph

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Line groupings of various length (stanzas are equal length)

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Verset

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Short verse, especially one from a sacred book

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Versification

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Art of writing verses

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Villanelle

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Fixed form poem, five 3-line stanzas followed by a quatrain and only having two rhymes.

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Volta

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Place at which distinct turn of thought occurs. Usually in sonnet.

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Zuegma

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Figure of speech; single word used in the same grammatical relationship with two or more other words.

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Alexandrine

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Iambic line of 12 syllables, or six feet. Standard line in French poetry.

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