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the recurrence of consonant sounds at the beginning of nearby stressed syllables
Alliteration
protagonist’s opponent
Antagonist
the recurrence of vowel sounds in nearby stressed syllables
Assonance
a short, simple narrative song
Ballad
a major pause within the lines of a poem
Caesura
the recurrence of consonant sounds in nearby stressed syllables
Consonance
the manner of speech characteristic of a certain area or class
Dialect
originally a poem of solemn meditation; now a formal poem lamenting the death of a particular person or meditating on the subject of death itself
Elegy
refers to rhymes at the ends of lines
End rhyme
a brief tale with moral point and generally with nonhuman characters
Fable
poetry without rhyme or meter
Free verse
a standard or category of literature
Genre
special type of verbal irony; exaggeration, implies less than what is said
Hyperbole
includes partial rhyme and eye rhyme
Imperfect rhyme
the expression of one thing in terms of another; the stated or implied equivalence of two things
Metaphor
the regular recurrence of accented syllables in a line of poetry
Meter
a contrast exist between the literal and implied levels of meaning of an expression or statement
Verbal irony
poetry written to enhance or make memorable a particular -
Occasional verse
the attitude of a work toward its subject
Tone
the use of words that sound like what they mean
Onomatopoeia
A recurring or emerging idea in a work of literature
Theme
a seeming contradiction
Paradox
an object that stands for something else as well as for itself
Symbol
usually shows agreement in terminal consonant sounds but disagreements in the preceding vowel sounds: “held,” “build”; may show agreement in the vowel sounds but disagreement in the succeeding consonant sounds: “in,” “trim”
Partial / Slant Rhyme
the anticipation created in the reader because of the author’s withholding information about the nature or outcome of a situation while raising the reader’s curiosity or anxiety
Suspense
required agreement of sounds from the last stressed vowel sound onward, with a difference in the immediately preceding consonant sounds
Perfect rhyme
the manner of expression in prose or verse, in written or oral discourse
Style
random sequence of thoughts and sensations within the mind of the central character
Stream of consciousness
the giving of personal characteristics to something that is not a person
Personification
A group of lines constituting a section of a poem usually distinguished in print by spacing
Stanza
a connected series of incidents
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Plot
A lyric poem of fourteen iambic-pentameter lines conventionally rhyming according to one of two patterns
Sonnet
A stated comparison of two things using a linking word or phrase
Simile
Narrative perspective; the way a story is told
Point of view
the chief or main character
Protagonist
The time and place in which a narrative takes place, or in which an incident within a narrative takes place
Setting
the creation of a double meaning by the use of homonyms
Pun
European and American reaction to the cultural climate and values of neoclassicism
Romanticism
corrective ridule in literature, or a work that is designed to correct and evil by means of ridicule
Satire
a story with a literal and an implied level of meaning
Allegory
