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melodrama

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A type of drama related to tragedy but featuring sensational incidents emphasizing plot at the expense of characterization relying on kruder conflicts and having a happy ending in which good triumphs over evil

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literary fiction

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Fiction written with serious artistic intentions providing an imagined experience your thing authentic insight into some significant aspect of life

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masculine rhyme

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a rhyme in which the repeated accented vowel sound is in the final syllable of the words involved

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metaphor

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A figure of speech in which an implicit comparison is made between two things essentially unlike

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meter

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The regular patterns of accent that underlie metrical verse, the measurable repetition of accented and unaccented syllables in poetry

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metonymy

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a figure of speech in which some significant aspect or detail of an experience is used to represent the whole experience

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metrical variations

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departures from the basic metrical pattern

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Monometer

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A metrical line containing 1 foot

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moral

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A rule of conduct for living expressed or implied as the point of a literary work

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motivation

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The incentives or goals that, in combination with the inherent natures of characters, cause them to behave as they do

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mystery

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an unusual set of circumstances for which the reader craves an explanation

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narrator

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in drama a character found who speaking directly to the audience introduces the action and provides a string of commentary between the dramatic scenes

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non-realistic drama

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drama that, in content, presentation, or both, departs markedly from Fidelity to the outward appearances of life

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octave

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an eight line stanza or the first eight lines of a sonnet

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onomatopoeia

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The use of words that supposedly mimic their meaning in their sound

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overstatement

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A figure of speech in which exaggeration is used in the service of truth

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oxymoron

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A compact verbal paradox in which two successive words seemingly contradict one another

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paradox

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A statement or situation containing apparently contradictory or incompatible elements

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paradoxical situation

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A situation containing apparently but not actually incompatible elements

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paradoxical statement

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A figure of speech in which and apparently self-contradictory statement is nevertheless found to be true

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paraphrase

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A restatement of the content of a poem designed to make its prose meaning as clear as possible

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pentameter

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metrical line containing 5 feet

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phonetic intensive

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A word whose sound, by an obscure process, to some degree suggest its meaning

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Plot

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The sequence of incidents or events of which a story or plays composed

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plot manipulation

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A situation in which an author gives the plot a twist or turn unjustified by proceeding action or by the characters involved

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poeticizing

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writing that uses immoderately heightened or distended language to sway the readers feelings

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Point of view

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The angle of vision from which a story is told

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omniscient point of view

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The author tells the story using the third person knowing all and free to tell us anything including what the characters are thinking or feeling and why they act as they do

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third person limited point of view

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The author tells the story using the third person, but is limited to a complete knowledge of one character in the story and tells us only what that one character thinks feels sees or hears

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first person point of view

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The stories told by one of its characters using the first person

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Objective or dramatic point of view

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The author tells the story using the third person but is limited to reporting what the character say or do

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prose meaning

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that part of a poems total meaning that can be separated out and expressed through paraphrase

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prose poem

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usually a short composition having the intentions of poetry but written in prose rather than verse

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protagonist

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The central character in a story or play

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quatrain

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a four line stanza or a four line division of a sonnet marked off by his rhyme scheme

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realistic drama

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drama that attempts and content and presentation to preserve the illusion of actual every day life

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refrain

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I repeated word phrase line or group of lines normally at some fixed position in a poem

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rhetorical pause

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A natural pause unmarked by punctuation introduced into the reading of the line by it’s phrasing or syntax

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rhetorical poetry

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poetry using artificially eloquent language, language to highflown for this occasion and unfaithful to the full complexity of human experience

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rhetorical stress

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in natural speech as an pros and poetic writing the stressing of words or syllables so as to emphasize meaning and sentence structure

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rhythm

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anyways like recurrence of motion or sound

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rhyme

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The repetition of the accented vowel sound and all succeeding sounds important or importantly positioned words

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rhyme scheme

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any fixed pattern of rhymes characterizing a whole poem or it’s stanzas

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rising action

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that development of plot in the story or play that proceeds and leads up to the climax

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run on line

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A line which has no natural speech pause at its end allowing the sense to flow uninterruptedly into the succeeding line

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sarcasm

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bitter or cutting speech, speech intended by eight speaker to give pain to the person addressed

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satire

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A kind of literature that ridicules human folly or vice with the purpose of bringing about reform or of keeping others from falling into similar folly or vice

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scansion

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The process of measuring metrical verse, of marking accented and unaccented syllables, dividing the lines into feet, identifying the metrical pattern, and noting significant variations from that pattern

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sentimentality

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unmerited or contrived tender feeling, that quality in a work that elicits or seeks to elicit tears through an oversimplification or falsification of reality

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sentimental poetry

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poetry that attempts to manipulate the readers emotions in order to achieve a greater emotional response than the poem itself warrants

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sestet

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A six line stanza

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Setting

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The context in time and place in which the action of the story occurs

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simile

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A figure of speech in which an explicit comparison is made between two things essentially unlike using like, as, than, similar to, resembles, or seems

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soliloquy

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A speech in which a character, alone on the stage, addresses himself or herself, a soliloquy is a thinking out loud, a dramatic means of letting an audience know I characters thoughts and feelings

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sonnet

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A fixed form of 14 lines with a rhyme scheme conforming to or approximating one of two main types the Italian or the English

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spondee

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metrical foot consisting of two syllables equally or almost equally accented

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stanza

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A group of lines who’s metrical pattern is repeated throughout the poem

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stanzaic form

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The form taken by a poem when it is written in a series of units having the same number of lines and usually other characteristics in common

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Stream of consciousness

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narrative that presents the private thoughts of a character without commentary or interpretation by the author

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stress

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accent

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structure

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The sequential arrangement of plot elements in fiction or drama

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substitution

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in metrical verse, the replacement of the expected metrical foot by a different one

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surprise

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an unexpected turn in the development of a plot

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surprise ending

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A completely unexpected revelation or turn of plot at the conclusion of the story or play

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suspense

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that quality in a story or play that makes the reader eager to discover what happens next and how it well and

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syllabic verse

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verse measured by the number of syllables rather than the number of feet per line

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symbol

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something that means more than what it is

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synecdoche

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A figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole

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synesthesia

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presentation of one sense experience in terms usually associated with another sensation

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terza rima

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an interlocking rhyme scheme with the pattern ABA BCB CDC etc.

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tetrameter

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A metrical line containing 4 feet

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theme

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The central idea or unifying generalization implied or stated by a literary work

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tone

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The writers or speakers attitude towards the subject the audience or herself or himself, the emotional meaning of a work

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total meaning

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The total experience communicated by a poem

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tragedy

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A type of drama, opposed to comedy, which depicts the casually related events that lead to the downfall and suffering of the protagonist

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trimeter

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A metrical line containing 3 feet

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triple meter

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A meter in which a majority of the feet contain three syllables

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Trochaic meter

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A meter in which the majority of feet are trochees

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trochee

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A metrical foot consisting of one accented syllable followed by one unaccented syllable

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truncation

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in metric versus the omission of an unaccented syllables at either end of the line

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understatement

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A figure of speech that consists of saying less than one means, or of saying what one means with less force then the occasion warrants

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unhappy ending

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and ending that turns out unhappily for a sympathetic protagonist

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verse

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metrical language the opposite of pros

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