FINAL EXAM Flashcards
(149 cards)
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List the characteristics of a folktale.
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- short
- Usually anonymous
- passed on orally
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List the characteristics of a fable.
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- depicts a moral of practical wisdom
- remains a brief and focused story
- embodies a common problem in it’s action
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The tortoise and the osprey is between what two genres?
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fable and myth
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List the characteristics exhibited in the pumpkin seeds as required by the genre fairy tale.
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- it has an infinite setting
- it contains fantastical or magical elements
- it has forever moral boundaries
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In the pumpkin seeds the poor but kinder brother is an example of what?
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archetype
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Who is the hero of the Iliad? Why?
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Achilles, because his anger drives the conflict; it is about him defending his home and trying to defeat Troy.
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In Pandora Zues mitigates his revenge by adding what to the casket?
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hope
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What are the three friends in the lion makers made?
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unsympathetic by their arrogance
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What is Hectors character type?
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flat and static
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What does Astyanax become afraid of?
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Hector’s helmet
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List the characteristics of an essay.
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- it is a short prose composition
- it discusses a particular topic in a non technical way
- it expresses the thoughts and opinions of the writer
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How do informal and formal essays differ?
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- voice
- structure
- tone
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What point of view is a miserable merry Christmas written from?
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first person point of view
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What is the tone of an old fashioned Iowa Christmas?
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nostalgic
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what type of essay is why the leaves turn color in the fall?
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formal and scientific
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The sire de le monts door primarily presents a nineteenth century romantic review of what?
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love
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what is the tone toward Eudora Welty’s Marian?
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disapproving
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In a visit of charity Welty describes Addie in terms of what?
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a lamb
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How does the title of a visit of charity exemplify irony?
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Addie was not going for charity, but for herself to gain her scout points
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What possession is especially prized by Johnathan in Civil peace?
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his bike
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What statement does Johnathan repeat in the face of obstacles?
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nothing puzzles God
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List the ways that poetry as a whole, differs from prose?
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- it uses the marks and modes of literature with greater intensity
- it more often uses language for both its meanings and beauty
- it values imagination and emotion more
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What is the most basic structural division of poetry?
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line
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The structure of I will sing unto the Lord is formed by which two literary devices?
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parallelism and repetition
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What broad genre of poetry does snow bound belong to?
narrative poetry
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List the four elements of poetry discussed in the intro to the poetry unit.
- imagery
- word choice
- sound
- structure
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List the symbols from the poem lady clair.
- a rose
- a diamond necklace
- a lily white dove
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What is the poetic model in had I the choice?
the sea
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What is a poems patter of end rhyme?
rhyme scheme
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How does the central image of we wear the mask help convey the poems message?
the mask disguises true feelings of despair, the image illustrates how humans hide their true feelings behind a falsely positive attitude.
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List the symbols found in the poetry the panther.
- the bars represent a restrictive barrier
- the panther represents a character whose vision of reality is impaired by his confinement
- the cramped circles represent the suffocating routine of daily life.
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What is the closing atmosphere of the panther?
negative and sad
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What is the overall atmosphere of night song city and what is the poets tone?
- irony and despondent hope
| - the police are not helping and they just want their city to be at rest from the problems
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What are the two settings in landscape with cows and what does each represent in the poem?
- a country side: which is slower than the city and peaceful
| - a city: fast paced
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Which stanza types are found in snow bound?
rhyme to connect content and their couplets
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What is the tone of snow in the suburbs?
humorous and lighthearted but then more serious toward the end
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What does the apple tree represent in the wise old apple tree in spring?
beauty for its own sake
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Who keeps the feud alive?
the younger generation
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Which two characters are foils to Juliet?
the nurse and lady Capulet
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C) the panther
quatrain
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C) Romeo and Juliet
blank verse
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C) night song city
triplet
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C) I will sing unto the Lord
lyric poetry
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C) snow bound
couplet
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C) the ant and the grasshopper
beast fable
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C) high flight
Italian sonnet
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C) had I the choice
free verse
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C) the wise old apple tree
sestets
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the repetition of initial consonant sounds
alliteration
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a reference within a work to something else; usually history or another artistic work.
allusion
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a force or character who struggle against the protagonist
antagonist
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a rhetorical device that uses syntactical parallelism in two adjacent phrases or clauses to emphasize their contrasting meanings
antithesis
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a speaker or writer directly addressing an absent person, abstraction, or inanimate object.
apostrophe
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character types plot patterns or images that recur throughout world literature.
archtype
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a stage device in which a character briefly discloses his thoughts in the presence of other character who by convention do not hear him.
aside
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the repetition of similar vowel sounds in a series of words.
assonance
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the mood or emotion that the reader is supposed to share with the characters.
atmosphere
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a narrative poem often derived from folklore and originally intended to be sung or recited.
ballad
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fables with the main characters as animals
beast fable
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unrhymed iambic pentameter
blank verse
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the use of words that are harsh or dissonant in sound
cacophony
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a pause in the middle of a line of poetry, usually indicated my a mark of punctuation
caesura
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two parallel phrases, clauses, or sentences; which the second reverses the elements of the first inverting the parallel structure.
chiasmus
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the point at which the plot reaches the moment of highest emotional intensity
climax
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a play written to be read and not performed
closet drama
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drama that focuses on light hearted matters such as courtship and love and that may also be satirical
comedy
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comic elements inserted into serious drama to relieve dramatic tension.
comic relief
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a type of comparison that draws a striking parallel between two seemingly dissimilar things
conceit
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List the content conventions of the epic.
- the setting is large
- the supernatural is active and involved
- the hero unusually both in gifts and historical importance
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The illiad is based on what?
the historic was between the Greeks and Egyptians
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Identify ways in which Pandora fulfills the overall purpose of a myth.
it attempts to explain the origin of women, the source of the world's troubles.
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What does Engle emphasize to convey the message of his essay an old fashioned Iowa Christmas?
imagery
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Who is the protagonist of the Sire de le Monts door?
Denis
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What point of view does Doyle use in The adventure of the speckled band? How does this help the story?
- first person point of view
| - it adds to the mystery and suspense
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Name two ways in which Benchly's how to get things done qualifies as an informal essay.
- it creates a humorous and light tone
| - through structure
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What key ingredient must be removed in order for us to read drama as literature?
the vital aspect of performance
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List the things that are true to most dramatic scenes.
they are subdivisions acts, occurs in a single setting, and are un-interrupted in time
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What are the two largest traditional sungenres of drama?
comedy and tragedy
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Define picture frame stage.
Open the the audience on only one side, like a window into real life.
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What is the plot crisis of Romeo and Juliet? What is ironic about this incident?
Romeo killing Tybalt, because hurting the Capulet's is the last thing he wanted to do.
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The phrase star crossed lovers introduces what theme?
fate vs. free will
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The Friar's advice wisely and slow , they stumble that run fast reveals what theme?
haste
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In Act 3, Shakespeare uses the lark and the nightingale to symbolize which two things?
- the night and dawn
| - they were arguing about how much time they had left together
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Which three characters act as foils to Romeo?
Benvolio, Tybalt, and Paris
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Romeo and Juliet's tragic flaw encompass which two main themes?
- haste
| - reason vs. passion
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Name and define the two verbal formulas associated with traditional epics.
Epic similes and Homeric epitaphs
- epic similes- a type of simile common in traditional epics in which the vehicle of the comparison is described at considerable length.
- Homeric epitaphs- a stock phrase inserted to describe a particular person or thing that recurs in a poem, generally in an epic.
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words that appeal to one or more of the five senses.
concrete language
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the opposition of two or more characters or forces; man vs. man; man vs. higher power, man vs. himself
conflict
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the meaning of a word plus all of its implications and emotional associations.
connotative language
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the repetition on terminal consonant sounds
consonance
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a pair of rhymed lines
couplet
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resolution
denoumont
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a character who changes as the story progresses
developing/dynamic character
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define drama.
literature written to be acted
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define dramatic irony.
a type of irony in which the reader is aware of a plot development of which the characters of the story are unaware.
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rhyme that occurs at the ends of corresponding lines of poetry.
end rhyme
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poetry whose taught is usually distributed over three quatrains with a concluding couplet.
English sonnet
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a poetic device in which lines flow past the end of one verse line and into the next with no punctuation at the end of the first verse line.
enjambment
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a long stylized narrative poem celebrating the deeds of a great national or ethnic hero of legend.
epic
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an additional to a storys ending that expounds on the fortunes of the main character or on the significance of the story's conclusion.
epilogue
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the use of words whose sounds are pleasant and musical to the ear.
euphony
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word pairs that sound alike but pronounced differently
eye rhyme
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a brief fanciful story that embodies a particular moral
fable
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a folktale set in an indefinite time and place and containing an element of the fantastical or magical.
fairy tales
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an artful deviation from literal speech
figurative language
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a character with little individuality whose mindset the reader knows little about.
flat character
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poetry with no set meter or rhyme.
free verse
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a character used to emphasize another characters opposing traits within a work.
foil charecter
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a short tale passed along by word of mouth throughout a given culture.
folktale
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define genre.
a type or category of literature
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a pair of rhyming lines written in iambic pentameter
heroic couplet
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a type of obvious overstatement used by writers to make a point
hyperbole
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descriptive words or phrases that appeal to sense perceptions in order to create an impression.
imagery
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rhyme that occurs between words within a single line of poetry.
internal rhyme
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poetry whose first eight lines form a distinct unit of thought and whose last six lines form another.
Italian sonnet
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a brief poem expressing the personal views of a single speaker on a particular topic.
lyric poem
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an expression in which are related thing stands for the thing itself.
metonymy
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define meter.
the regular pattern of stressed and un stressed syllables
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a folktale that explains a specific aspect of life or the natural world usually in terms of supernatural forces or beings, and that was at one time held to be true within a certain cultural group.
myth
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brief phrases that combine contradictory elements for effect.
oxymoron
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the person created by the author to tell the story affecting the way a story is told.
persona
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giving human characteristics to something that is not human
personification
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define plot.
a series of events arranged to produce a definite sense of movement toward a specific goal.
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an introduction to a literary work.
prologue
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the main character of the story.
protaginist
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a type of word play in which the author combines two word meanings within a sentence.
pun
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a stanza or poem of two lines
quatrain
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besting another's remark of turning it to one's own advantage in a contest of wits.
repartee
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the art of public speaking
rhetoric
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verse having end rhyme and regular meter
rhymed verse
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a character who is complex and often undergoes changes in his actions and thoughts
round character
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a type of irony that takes form as mock praise
sarcsm
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corrective ridicule of some object of scorn usually outside of the literature itself.
satire
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a stanza of six lines
sestet
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define situational irony.
a type of irony in which a story's events violate normal expectations .
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rhyme between two words with similar but slightly mismatched sounds
slant rhyme
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a form of speech in which a character who believes himself to be alone discloses his innermost thoughts.
soliloquy
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divisions of a poem based on thought.
stanza
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a character who remains essentially the same throughout the story.
static character
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define structural irony.
sustained verbal irony that generates two layers of meaning. One literal and one implied through out the entire work.
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define symbol.
a person, place, or thing, or idea within a narrative or poem that means something in addition to itself.
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using part of something to stand for the whole.
synecdoche
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the attitude of an author toward his or her subject.
tone
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a literary work in which the flaws of the protagonist cause him tremendous suffering eventually resulting in a disastrous conclusion.
tragedy
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A stanza of three lines that usually share the same rhyme
Triplets
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A recurring or emerging idea in a work of literature.
Theme
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The representation of something as less important than it truly is.
Understatement
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Define verbal irony.
Irony occurring when a speaker’s meaning differs from what he or she expresses in words.
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brief verbal expression that amuses listeners through a clever but unexpected turn of phrase or connection between ideas.
Wit
