Literary Terms Flashcards

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What is a "Troche"?

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A foot with one unstressed syllable followed by one unstressed syllable, and in the word “broken”

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A foot with two unstressed syllables followed by one stressed syllable and in the phrase “in a flash”

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A foot with one stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables, and in the work “argument”

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A foot with two stressed syllables, as in the word “airship”

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A foot with two unstressed syllables, as in the last foot on the word “imagining”

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A foot with an unstressed syllable, one stressed syllable, and another stressed syllable, as in the word “ungainly”

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A foot with a stressed syllable, one unstressed syllable, and another stressed syllable as in “give and take”

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Was a literary movement among novelists at the end of the nineteenth century and the early decades on the twentieth century. They tended to view people as hapless victims of immutable natural laws

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A long, formal lyric poem with a serious theme that may have a traditional stanza structure

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The use of words that imitate sounds

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A figure of speech that combines two opposing or contradictory ideas

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A brief story, usually with human characters, that teaches a moral lesson

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A statement that seems to be contradictory, but that actually presents the truth

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A humorous interpretation of a literary work. It exaggerates or distorts the characteristic features of the original

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A figure of speech in which a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics

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The presentation in are of the detail of actual life. Realism was also a literary movement that began during the nineteenth century and that stressed the actual as opposed to the imagined or the fanciful.

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A repeated line or group of lines in a poem or song

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The tendency among certain authors to write about specific geographical areas

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Literary and artistic movement of the 19th century, on that arose in reaction against 18th century neoclassicism and that placed a premium on fancy, imagination, individuality, and exotica

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Writing that ridicules or criticizes individuals, ideas, institutions, social conventions, or other works of literature.

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A figure of speech that makes a direct comparison between two subjects using like or as

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In a play or prose work is a long speech made by a character who is alone and who reveals his or her private thoughts and feelings to the audience

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A 14 line lyric poem focused on a single theme

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A group of lines in a poem, considered as a unit

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A narrative technique that presents thoughts as if they were coming directly from a character’s mind

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A figure of speech in which a part of something is used to stand for the whole thing

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An American literary and philosophical movement of the 19th century. The transcendentalists, who were based in New England, believed that intuition and the individual conscience “transcend” the experience and thus are better guides to truth than are the senses and logical reason

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The ordinary language of people in a particular region

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A 19 line poem with only two rhymes that follows a strict pattern popular in traditional French poetry.

Literary Terms Flashcards

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