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| the repetition of consonant sounds in the initial position of adjacent words |
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| a technique in which the typical order of words is reversed or rearranged in order to achieve a particular effect of emphasis or meter |
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| a figure of speech in which someone (usually but not always absent), some abstract quality or a nonexistent personage is directly addressed as though present |
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| a pause in or near the middle of a line of verse, especially prominent in Anglo-Saxon (and Icelandic) poetry |
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| relief that comes as a result of the purging of pity and fear (in response to tragedy) |
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| in a plot, the employment of some unexpected and improbably incident to make things turn out right |
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| a person/character who through contrast underscores the distinctive characteristics of another |
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| excessive pride (often a tragic hero's tragic flaw) |
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| a technique in which the typical order of words is reversed or rearranged in order to achieve a particular effect of emphasis or meter |
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| a metaphorical compound used as a substitute for a person or thing (i.e. whale road, wave traveler, army net) |
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| an extended metaphor that makes an unusually striking, original, and elaborate connection between two quite dissimilar things |
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| the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in verse |
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| a repeated word, phrase, image, or idea that serves to unify a work of literature |
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| an eight-line unit, which may constitute a stanza or a section of a poem, as in the octave of a sonnet |
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| a statement that seems to contradict or oppose itself but is actually true |
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| a humorous, mocking imitation of a literary work, sometimes sarcastic, but often playful and even respectful in its playful imitiation |
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| a four-line stanza in a poem; the first four lines and the second four lines in an Italian sonnet. A Shakespearean sonnet contains three quatrains followed by a couplet |
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| the point (in tragedy) the hero realizes his bad fortune (Anagorisis) |
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| the point (in tragedy) when a hero's fortunes turn in an unexpected direction (Peripeteia) |
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| a six-line unit of verse constituting a stanza or section of a poem; the last six lines of an Italian sonnet |
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| a speech in a play that is meant to be heard by the audience but not by other characters on the stage. If there are no other characters present, the soliloquy represents the character thinking aloud |
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literally, a turn
a sonnet has a volta (a turn in thought or a marked shift), typically in line 9 or line 13. |
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| division into two mutually exclusive, opposed, or contradictory groups (i.e. good vs. evil) |
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| intended for instruction; teaching or intending to teach a moral lesson |
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| accepting all things and events as inevitable; submissive to fate |
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| hero's fortune turning in a bad thing (reversal) |
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| point in plot where protagonist recognizes their or someone's true identity or situation |
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