Literary Corrected

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A story or tale with two or more levels of meaning, a literal level, and one or more symbolic levels; the events, settings, and characters in an allegory are symbols for ideas or qualities (EX: “Masque of the Red Death”)

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Allegory

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The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words or accented syllables

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Alliteration

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A reference to a well-known person, play, event, literary work, or work of art

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Allusion

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The repetition of vowel sounds in conjunction with the dissimilar consonant sounds

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Assonance

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Unrhymed iambic pentameter (often used in Shakespearean plays)

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Blank Verse

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Audible pause that breaks up a line of poetry; indicated by a punctuation mark

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Caesura

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An approach to literature and other arts that stresses reason, balance, clarity, ideal beauty, and orderly form in imitation of the arts of ancient Greece and Rome

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Classicism

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An extended comparison of two very unusual things (See Edward Taylor)

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Conceit

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The repetition of similar consonant sounds at the end of words or accented syllables

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Consonance

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A two line stanza or group of lines in a poem that are considered a unit. Typically these are rhyming lines

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Couplet

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The running of a thought from one line, couplet, stanza, to the next without a break

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Enjambment

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A phrase, quote, or poem at the beginning of a piece of literature that serves as a preface or summary (see “Fall of the House of Usher)

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Epigraph

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A metaphor that encompasses several sentences of text (See “Sinners” by Edwards

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Extended Metaphor

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Timeless story in which characters display little individuality and who tone is mildly humorous (Irving)

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Folk Tale

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Uses primitive, medieval, or mysterious elements, gloomy castles or supernatural evens (types are arabesque - mental horror / grotesque - physical horror)

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Gothic Tale

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Deliberate exaggeration or overstatement (Bradstreet)

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Hyperbole

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Meter of poetry with one unstressed syllable (short) followed by one stressed syllable (long)

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Iambic

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Meter of poetry containing four feet (iambs) in a line / eight syllables (Bradstreet “Burning”)

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Iambic Tetrameter

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Meter of poetry containing five feet (iambs) in a line / ten syllables

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Iambic Pentameter

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Verbal: speakers says one thing and means another
Dramatic: audience perceives something a character does not know
Situational: discrepancy between the expected result and the actual result

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Irony

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Descriptive language that creates a mental image for a reader

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Imagery

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Reversal of usual syntax (order of words) in a syntax (“once upon a MIDNIGHT DREARY”)

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Inversion / Anastrophe

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Figure of speech consisting of an understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by negating its opposite (“That sounds like it might not be a bad idea”)

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Litotes

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A figure of speech in which one thing is spoken of as if it were something else (without “like” or “as”)

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Metaphor

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The measured arrangement of words in poetry, as by accentual rhythm, syllabic quantity, or number of syllables in a line

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Meter

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The substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant (“suit” for “business executive” / “the track” for horse racing / “the Crown” for the royal family)

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Metonymy

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Writing with difficult complex sentence structure and many allusions

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Ornate Style

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A figure of speech by which a location produces an incongruous or self-contradicting effect (two words - “violent churchgoer” from Irving)

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Oxymoron

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Self-contradicting statement that may hold a possible truth

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Paradox

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Mask to satisfy situation; perceived identity

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Persona

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Giving human traits and acts to non-human things

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Personification

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Speech used in a manner to manipulate the recipient to think or act in a certain way (think of “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry god”) Often uses argumentative proofs such as Ethos (credibility), Pathos (emotion), and Logos (logic)

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Persuasive Speech

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Used to characterize speech or writing that is simple, direct, and unambiguous (associated with Puritanism)

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Plain Style

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Material disseminated by the advocates of a doctrine or cause

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Propaganda

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Detective story (Poe)

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Rational Tale

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End rhyme: repetition of sounds within a line Internal Rhyme: repetition of sounds within a line Slant Rhyme: an almost-rhyme or an off rhyme (see “The Raven” for all kinds) Eye Rhyme: words that appear to rhyme to the eye but do not actually rhyme

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Rhyme: Repetition of Sounds

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Writing designed to evoke strong emotional response (see handout / ptt on Romanticism)

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Romanticism

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Environment (historical time, time of day, region, physical place, etc…) in which a story takes place

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Setting

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Direct comparison of two subjects using like or as

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Simile

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A simplified and standardized conception or image invested with a special meaning and held in common by members of a group

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Stereotype

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Anything that stands for or represents something else (can be objects, people, acts)

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Symbol

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A figure of speech in which part is used for the whole (“All hands on deck”) or (“Nice wheels”)

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Synecdoche

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Implicit or current idea (should be more narrow and focused than “love” - for instance “love has the power to drive people to insanity”)

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Theme

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General quality or atmosphere; manner of expression

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Tone