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Instruction in literature. Writers and critics believe imaginative literature should have two purposes; to delight and to teach

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Didacticism

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A lyric poem of fourteen iambic-pentameter lines conventionally rhyming according to one of two patterns

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Sonnet

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The regular recurrence of accented syllables in a line of poetry.

Read and understand the full d finite on given in your textbook glossary

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Meter

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Identical sound in corresponding words or phrases

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Rhyme

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A four line stanza, one of the most common stance forms in English poetry

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Quatrain

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The addressing of some nonpersonal (or absent) object as if it were able to reply (“O,Death, where is thy sting.”

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Apostrophe

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Broadly, the expression of one thing in terms of another. In stricter usage, it is the stated of implied equivalence of Two things (“I am the bread of life.”

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Metaphor

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A recurring or emerging idea in a work of literature. A work may have many themes. It’s major theme is its main point, similar to the thesis of an essay. It may explicit (stated outright) or implicit (it’s concept must be inferred)

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Theme

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A striking and often elaborate comparison carried out in considerable detail

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Conceit

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Unrhymed iambic-pentameter

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Blank verse