Terms Flashcards
Repetition of initial consonant sounds
Alliteration
A tale, verse or prose in where the characters represent abstract ideas or moral qualities
Allegory
Reference to the bible, history, or art in literature
Allusion
Comparison between two objects for the purpose of finding similarities
Analogy
Poetic foot of two unstressed followed by a stressed syllable
Anapest
A noun or pronoun that explains another noun or pronoun
Appositive
The character opposing the protagonist, causing the conflict
Antagonist
The balancing of two contrasting words or phrases
Antithesis
Poetic device in which the writer directly addresses a person, place, or thing as if it were present
Apostrophe
A speech in plays which is intended for the audience only and not for the other characters onstage
Aside
Repetition of vowl sounds in a line of poetry
Assonance
Poem that tells a story, four line stanzas, 2nd and 4th lines rhyme
Balled
Earliest ballads that have no known author
Folk ballad
Story of a persons life
Biography
Poetic verse of unrhymed iambic pentameter
Blank verse
A break or pause in a line of poetry
Caesura
A section or division of a poem
Canto
Decisive moment in a story where the reader knows the outcome
Climax
Protagonist extricates himself from his obstacle
Comedy
Sophisticated humor that appeals to the sophisticated society, comedy stems from the breaking the rules of society
Comedy of manner
The struggle the protagonist faces, the plot revolves around this
Conflict
Repetition of consonance sounds in a line of poetry
Consonance
A poetic foot with stressed followed by two unstressed
Dactyl
A brief witty pointed content, often a brief poem
Epigram
A short poem in memory of someone who has died (usually on a tombstone)
Epitaph
a sonnet consisting three quatrains and a concluding couplet in iambic pentameter
Elizabethan Sonnet
Non fiction, expressing a point if view
Formal-dignified, instruct persuade
Informal-relaxed,conversational, any topic
Essay
After the climax
Denouement/ falling action
A tale which uses animals with human characteristics to provide a moral message
Fable
Departs from the literal to achieve special effect
Figurative language
Permits a writer to say one thing but mean another
Figures of speech
Two rhymed lines of iambic pentameter
Heroic couplet
A verse line if six feet
Hexameter
Overstatement of fact used for serious or humorous effect
Hyperbole
Unstressed followed by a stress
Iamb
Five lines of iamb
Iambic pentameter
Rhyme scheme composed of, A-B-A-B-C-B
Interlocking rhyme
Rhyme within a line of poetry
Internal rhyme
Figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or between them
Metaphor
A metaphor that compares two startlingly similar things
Metaphysical Conceit
A regular pattern of rhythm in poetry
Meter
Work that deals with a trivial topic and treated humorously that still has the components of an epic
Mock epic
Eight lines of a sonnet
Octave
Serious dignified lyric poem written for a special occasion, in honor of a person or abstract idea
Ode
Word that sound suggests the meaning
Onomatopoeia
Poem mourning the death of someone
Elegy
A sermon at a funeral
Eulogy
A poem that has 14 lines
Sonnet
Variable meter that involves stressed following a varying amount of unstressed
Sprung rhythm
A technique that imitates the characters thoughts
Stream of consciousness
Authors characteristic way of writing word choice, arrangement of words, relation to words and sentences
Style
Word that stands for an idea
Symbol
Literary movement where no direct statements only symbols to suggest any meaning and create a mood
Symbolism
A poetic line of 4 feet
Tetrameter
A poetic line of 3 feet
Trimeter
Hero does not solve his problem
Tragedy
The way of writing, the way words are arranged, and put together and make constitutes
Syntax
Stressed followed by one unstressed
Trochee
Itricaly pattern French poem, number of three line stanzas, last stanza is four lines, first and third lines are used as refrains, refrain is the end of the poem, only has two rhymes in whole poem
Villanelle
