Vocab

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Repetition of the same first consonant sounds in poetry

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Alliteration

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Story or poem in which characters, setting, and events stand for other people or events or for abstract ideas or qualities

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Allegory

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Refers to someone or something well known

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Allusion

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Comparison made between two things to show how they are alike

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Analogy

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A very brief story told to illustrate a point or serve as an example of something

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Anecdote

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Opponent to protagonist (central character who drives the action

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Antagonist

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Author addresses an inanimate object, an idea, or a person who is either dead or absent

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Apostrophe

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Character, action, or situation that is a pattern of human life generally; a situation that occurs over and over again in literature, such as a quest, an initiation, or an attempt to overcome evil.

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Archetype

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Rhetorical device of opposition in which one idea or word is established, and then the opposite idea or word is expressed as in “I love and hate. “

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Antithesis

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Terse statement on a serious subject

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Aphorism

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Repetition of the same vowel sounds in poetry

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Assonance

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Narrative poem composed of quatrains

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Ballad

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Refers to words combining sharp or harsh sounds

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Cacophony

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Single rhythmic unit such as a prepositional phrase or noun phrase

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Cadence

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Pause or juncture separating words or phrases within lines of poetry

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Caesura

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Seize the day; concerned with the shortness of life and the need to act in or enjoy the present

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Carpe diem poetry

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Release of ones emotions regarding plot or characters

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Catharsis

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Dynamic (life changes) static (no changes) stock (stereotype) round (complex traits) flat (had only one or two traits) static character

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Characters

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Direct: writer tells us directly what the character is like; indirect: writer shows us what the character is like

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Characterization

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Elaborate figure of speech that makes a surprising connection between two seemingly dissimilar things

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Conceit

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Sponsor of the classical Athenian play; serves as the leader of the chorus in the play

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Choragos

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A movement in art, literature, and music that advocates imitating the principles manifested in the art and literature of Ancient Greece and Rome; emphasizes reason, clarity, balance and universal themes; directly opposite of romanticism

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Classicism

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Overused expression; similar to dead metaphors

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Cliche

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Detailed study of a poem or passage; designed to explain characters, motivation, similarities, and contrasts of sound, situations, ideas, style, organization, word selections, settings, etc.

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Close reading of literature

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Words that describe exact and particular conditions or qualities, such as cold, sweet ice-cream sundae;;;; language describing qualities that are theoretical (good, nice)

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Concrete diction;;;;abstract diction

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Repetition of the same middle or final consonant sounds in poetry

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Consonance

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Turning point; decision made by the protagonist to resolve the conflict

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Crisis (climax)

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(God out of the machine) entrance of a god to unravel the problems in a play; refers to artificial and illogical solution of problems

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Deus ex machina

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Language characteristics (pronunciations, unique words, vocal rhythms) particular to regions such as New England or south or to separate nations, such as Britain or Austalia

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Dialect

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Word choice type of words and the level of language

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Diction

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Speaker of a poem addresses an internal listener or the reader; sometimes includes listeners unrecorded responses

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Dramatic monologue

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Poem of lamentation about a death

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Elegy

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(Run on line) a line having no end punctuation but running over to the next line

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Enjambment

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Long narrative poem elevating character, speech, and action

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Epic

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Person who goes on a quest to achieve something of great value to themselves or their society

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Epic hero

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Short and witty poem often in couplets that makes a humorous or satiric point

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Epigram

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Moment of sudden insight or revelation that someone experiences

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Epiphany

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Literature that is told by reading someone's letters

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Epistles

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Word groups containing consonants that permit an easy and pleasant flow of spoken sound

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Euphony

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Detailed analysis of a work of literature, often word by word and line by line; close reading

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Explication

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Brief story illustrating a moral truth (Aesop's fables)

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Fable

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Outlandish physical comedy that has silly characters, improbably happenings, wild clowning, extravagant language, and bawdy jokes

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Farce

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Usually a minor character who is used to highlight qualities of a major character

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Foil character

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Diagram showing the stages of dramatic structure (exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution/denouement

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Freytag's pyramid

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Type of literature such as fiction and poetry; type of work such as detective fiction, epic poetry

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Genre

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Two successive rhyming lines of iambic pentameter; five stress couplets are often called "heroic" regardless of their topic matter and the period in which they were written

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Heroic couplet

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Usage that produces unique words and phrases within regions, classes or groups(carry a pail or carry a bucket)

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Idiom

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20th c. movement in poetry which advocated the creation of hard, clear images, concisely written in everyday speech

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Imagism

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Situational (emphasis on ineffective need and powerlessness), verbal, (says the opposite of what is intended or expected) dramatic (audience knows what the character does not)

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Irony

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Comic use of improperly pronounced word so that what comes out is a real but also incorrect word (ex: odorous for odious) NOTE: the new word must be close enough to the correct word so that the resemblance is immediately recognized, along with the error.

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Malapropism

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Sentimental dramatic form with an artificially happy ending.

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Melodrama

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Dead (overused) mixed (mixes its terms so that they are visually or imaginatively incompatible) extended (metaphor that is extended or developed as far as the writer wants to take it)

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Metaphor

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One thing is used as a substitute for another with which it is closely identified (dear hearts)

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Metonymy

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Term for bold new experimental styles and forms that swept the arts during the first third of the 20th c.

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Modernism

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Short novel

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Novella

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Exaggeration

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Overstatement (hyperbole)

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Same grammatical forms are repeated

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Parallelism

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(Contradiction that is really the truth)

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Paradox

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(Combines opposites in a brief phrase: living death)

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Oxymoron

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Work that makes fun of another work by imitating some aspect of the writer's style

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Parody

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Poetic form with topic material drawn from the idealized lives and vocabularies of rural and shepherd life

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Pastoral

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Scene of suffering in tragedy; death on a stage; bodily agony; wounds

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Pathos

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Vantage point from which a story is told; (first person, "I" story; third person limited is limited to what he sees and hears; third person omniscient; knows all; objective; third person narration reporting actions and speech but does not comment on the actions or thoughts of the characters)

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Point of view

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Shortening of a narrative into it's essential parts- a synopsis, abridgment, paraphrase, condensation, or epitome

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Précis

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Began in 17th c. In Europe; arrive at the truth by using our reason rather than relying on the authority of the past, on the authority of the church, or on intuition. All ppl are born with an innate ethical sense and had the ability to regulate and improve their own lives

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Rationalism

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True, lifelike, or situations and concerns; theory underlying the depiction of reality in literature

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Realism/ verisimilitude

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Literature that emphasizes a specific geographic setting and that reproduces the speech, behavior, and attitudes the ppl who live in that region

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Regionalism

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Rebirth of classical learning of Greek and roman classics; renewal of creative spirit

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Renaissance

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In the late 18th and most if the 19th century, this period is marked by these characteristics: 1. A conviction that intuition, imagination, and emotion are superior to reason 2. A conviction that poetry is superior to science 3. A belief that contemplation of the natural world is a means of discovering the truth that lies beyond mere reality, 4. A distrust of industry and city life and an idealization of rural life and of the wilderness 5. An interest in the more natural past and in the supernatural; love of nature and contempt for technology

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Romanticism

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Analysis of a poem to determine its meter ( stressed and unstressed syllables, etc.)

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Scansion/scanning

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Informal diction and substandard vocabulary; some words/phrases are permanent; some are spontaneous, rising within a group

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Slang

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Near rhyme in which the concluding consonant sounds are identical, but not the vowels (should and food; slim and ham)

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Slant rhyme

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Couplet, tercet, quatrain, cinquain, sestet, octave

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Stanzas

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(Often chaotic) workings of a character's mind

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Stream of consciousness

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Movement to replace realism with the full expression of the unconscious mind (influenced by S. Freud)

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Surrealism

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A figure of speech in which a part represents the whole

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Synecdoche

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Word order and sentence structure

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Syntax

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Three line stanza form with the interlocking rhyming patterns aba, bcb, cdc

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Terza rima

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Tragic hero brings about the downfall because his error in judgement or because of a personality failure (flaw)

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Tragic flaw

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19th century movement in romantic tradition which says that every person can reach ultimate truths through spiritual intuition which transcends reason and sensory experience

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Transcendentalism

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Closed form poem of nineteen lines, composed of five tercet a and a concluding quatrain. The form requires that whole lines be repeated in a specific order and that only two rhyming sounds occur throughout

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Villanelle