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Rhythm

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Refers to recurrence of stressed and unstressed sounds in poetry

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Connotations define

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associations and implications that go beyond a word’s literal meanings

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Sarcasm define

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verbal irony that is calculated to hurt someone by false praise

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Setting define

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context in which the action of a story occurs

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Extended Metaphor

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Sustained comparison in which part or all of a poem consists of a series of related metaphors

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2 parts of tone:

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writers attitude

mood by all elements of poem

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Style define

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distinctive manner in which a writer arranges words to achieve particular effects

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Scene

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subdivision of an act in drama.
consist of units of action in which there are no changes in the setting or break in the continuity of time in modern plays

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Understatement define

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says less than is intended

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Near rhyme define

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sounds are almost but not exactly alike

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Personification define

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attribution of human characteristics to nonhuman things

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Oxymoron define

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condesned form of a paradox in which two contradictory words are used together

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Middle diction define

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spoken by most education people, less formal level of diction

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Prose Form

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Kind of open form poetry that is printed as prose and represents the most clear opposite of fixed form poetry

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Onomatopoeia define

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use of a word that resembles the sound it denotes

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Informal diction define

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slang, informal. ex: Hazels tells laverne poem

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Speaker

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Voice used by an author to tell a story or speak a poem

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Anagrams examples:

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read

dare

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Alliteration define

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repetition of the same consonant sounds at the beginnings of nearby words

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Script

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Written text of a play that includes dialogue between characters, stage directions, and often other expository info.

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Paraphrase define

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prose restatement of the central ideas of a poem in your own language

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foil define

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helps to reveal BY CONTRAST the distinctive qualities of another character

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Italian Sonnet

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Sonnet divided into an octave

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Lyric define

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brief, poem that expresses personal emotions and thoughts of a single speaker

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convention
characteristic of a literary genre that is understood and accepted by the audiences because it has come, through usage and time, to be recognized as a family technique
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Stress
Emphasis or accent given a syllable in a pronunciation
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Assonance define
repetition of same vowel sound in nearby words
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Apostrophe define
adress to either someone who is absent and therefore cannot hear the speaker or to someone nonhuman that cannot comprehend
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Theme define
central idea or meaning
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Plays
general term for a work of dramatic literature
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Narrative poem define
poem that tells a story
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English Sonnet
Organized into three quatrains and a couplet, which typically rhyme
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Figures of speech define
a way of saying one thing in terms of something else
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Caesura
Pause within a line of poetry that contributes to the rhythm of the line
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Conflict
struggle within the plot between opposing forces
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Anagrams define
words made from letters of other words
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Scansion
Process of measuring stresses in a line of a verse in order to determine the metrical pattern of a line
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Iambic Pentameter
Metrical pattern in poetry that consists of five iambic feet per line
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Theme
central meaning or dominant idea in a literary work
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Persona define
speaker created by the poet
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conventional symbol example:
christian cross, star of david
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Villanelle
Type of fixed-form poetry consisting of nineteen lines of any length divided into stanzas; five tercets and a concluding quatrain
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End-stopped line
Poetic line that has a pause at the end
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Paradox define
statement that initially appears to be self-contradictory but that, on closer inspection, turns out to make sense
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Verbal irony define
consists of a person saying one things but meaning the opposite
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recurrence of stressed and unstressed sounds
rhythm
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Satire define
example of literary art of ridiculing a folly or vice in an effort to expose or correct it
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Exact rhymes define
have same stressed vowel sounds as well as any sounds that follow the vowel
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Ambiguity define
allows for two or more simultaneous interpretations of a word, a phrase, an action, or a situation, all of which can be supported by the context of a work
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Acts
major division in the action of the play
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Connotative meanings are usually what?
Public meanings
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places more emphasis on one syllable than another
stress
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Tone define
writers attitude towards the subject, the mood created by all the elements in the poem
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Epic define
long narrative poem on a serious subject chronicling heroic deeds and important events
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Playwrights
a writer who makes plays
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Open form
Does not form to establish patterns of meter, rhyme, and stanza
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Syntax define
ordering of words into meaningful verbal patterns
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Denotations define
literal, dictionary meanings of a word
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Diction define
writers choice of words
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Metaphor compares two things without using what?
Like or as
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Couplet
Two consecutive lines of poetry that usually rhyme and have the same meter
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Meyer draws comparison to ____ and ____
music | poetry
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One-act play
play that takes place in a single location and unfolds as one continuous action (Action is sharply focused)
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Hyberbole/Overstatment define
add emphasis without intending to be literally true
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Falling Action
diminishing tensions and the resolution of the plot's conflict and complications
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Foot
Metrical unit by which a line of poetry is measured (usually consists of 1 stressed and 1 or 2 unstressed syllables
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Stanza
In poetry, refers to a group of lines, set off by a space, that usually has a set pattern of meter and rhyme Rhyme Scheme Describes the pattern of end rhymes (designate each line with a letter)
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Line
Sequence of words printed as a separate entity on the page
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Consonance define
identical consonant sound preceded by a different vowel sound
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Image define
language that addresses the senses
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Major elements of setting are what?
Time, place, and social environment that frame the character
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Dialect define
spoken by definable groups of people from a particular geographic region, economic group, or social class. Type of informal diction
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Verse define
lines composed in a measured rhythmical pattern, which are often, but not always rhymed
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most common images in poetry are ____
visual
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Meter
When a rhythmic pattern of stresses recurs in a poem
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End rhyme define
rhyme comes at the ends of lines
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Explication define
detailed explanation of a passage of poetry or prose
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Simile compares two things using what?
Like or as
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Conventional symbols define
widely recognized by a society or culture, well-defined within society
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Run-on line
When one line ends without a pause and continues into the next line for its meaning
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Formal diction define
dignified, impersonal, and elevated use of language
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Poets rely on widely shared _____ rather than on distinctive response that an individual might have to a word
associations
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Literary Symbol define
traditional, conventional, or public meanings, but may also be established internally by total context of the work in which it appears- not well-defined
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Pyramidal Pattern
divide plot into three essential parts (rising action, climax, falling action)
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Sonnet
Fixed form of lyric poetry that consists of fourteen lines, usually written in iambic pentameter
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Irony define
device that reveals a reality different from what appears to be true
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Stage Directions
playwright's written instructions about how actors in a play are to move and behave
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Fixed form
Poem that may be categorized by the patterns of its lines, meter, rhymes, and stanzas
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types of papers most frequently assigned in literature classes are:
explication, analysts, and comparison/contrast
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Rhyme define
way of creating sound patterns
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Dialogue
verbal exchanges between characters
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Synecdoche define
figure of speech in which part of something is used to signify the whole
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Drama
refers to a single play, a group of plays, or to all plays
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Tercet
Three-line stanza ex: AAA
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Quatrain
Four-line stanza. Most common stanzaic form in English language
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Point of view define
refers to who tells us the story and how it is told
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Crisis
turning point in action of a story that has a powerful effect on the protagonist
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Situational irony define
incongruity between what is expected to happen and what actually happens
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Internal rhyme define
MIDDLE OF LINE, places at least one of the rhymed words within the line
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narrator define
teller of the story

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