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| Type of “Hero” who is boldly defiant but bitterly self-tormenting |
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| A poem in which the intial letters of each lines read a name of something |
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| A major division in the action of a play |
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| A story of visual image with a second distinct meaning partially hidden behind its literal or visible meaning. |
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| Also known as "head rhyme" or "intial rhyme". The repetition of the same sounds, usually intial consonants of words, in any sequence of neighboring words. |
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| An indirect or passing reference to some event, person, place or artistic work. (she was no scrooge) |
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| Sometimes known as “Plurisignation” or “Multiple Meaning”. Openness to different interpretations; something can be taken in as two different things. |
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| The misplacing of any person, thing, custom, or event outside its proper historical time, |
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| A term used to denote a discrepancy between the order in which the events of the story occur and the order in wich they are presented in the plot. |
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| Illustration of an idea by means of a more familiar idea that is similar to it in some significant features, and thus analogous. |
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| a rhetorical device in which the speaker addresses a dead or absent person, or an abstraction or inanimate object (mother earth) |
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| A symbol, theme, setting, or character-type that recurs in different times and places in myth, literature, folklore, adn dreams. |
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| a short speech or remark spoken by a character in a drama. |
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| the repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds in the stressed syllables of neighboring words. (Sweet Dreams) |
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| A form of verbal compression which consists of the omission of connecting words (usually conjunctions like and or but) |
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| A folk song or orally transmitted poem telling in a direct and dramatic manner some popular story usually derived from a tragic incident in local history or legend. |
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| Ballad Meter or Ballad Stanza |
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| Usually quatrains with alternating four stress and three stress lines |
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| A kind of nvoel that follows the development of the hero or heroine from childhood into adulthood, through troubled quest for identity. |
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| Unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter, as in these final lines of Tennyson's " Ulysses" |
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| A poetic catalogue or list of a woman's admirable physical features |
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| A cowardly but boastful man who appears as a "stock character" in many comedies. |
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| A kind of parody that ridicules some serious literary work |
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