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Elegy
A solemn sorrowful poem or mediation about death or about one who is dead
Allusion
Reference in a work of literature I something outside the work
Ambiguity
Multiple meanings of literary work may communicate especially two incompatible meanings
Irony
3 types: verbal, dramatic, situational ; the intent an actual meaning differ
Enlightenment
Movement of the 18th Century that celebrated reason
Genre
A particular category of a piece of writing
End stopped
Lines that have a grammatical pause
Atmosphere
Refers to the quality tht evoke emotional reaction from audience; general feeling of work
Didactic
Instructive tone
Distortion
Manipulation of reality, time, space, emotion, etc.
Purposely misinterpretation of facts
Ex: putting a computer in a time area tht didn’t exist
Assonance
Reption of identitic or similar vowel sounds
Ex: a land laid waste all its young men slain
Iamb
Most common metrical foot in English, unstressed syllable followed by a stressed
Epigram
A pithy statement, often using contrast usually brief and pointed
Heroic couplet
Two ends topped iambic pentameter lines rhymes aa bb cc usually in two lines unit
Hexameter
Line containing six feet