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| the sensory content of a literary work; images which evoke pictures, sensations, smells, sounds |
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| stories begun "in the middle of things" |
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| an appeal to gods, spirits, the Muses for inspiration or truth or aid |
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| a contrast between what is stated and what is suggested - something different from what you'd expect or think is so - the reverse of the ordinary |
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| a song, a short fanciful medieval tale of love and/or adventure |
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| a literary verse or prose work that is a scurrilous personal attack |
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| a recurrent word, phrase, situation, object or idea, i.e. "rags to riches" motif |
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| playful poetry, may be polished and elaborate but always lighthearted, whimsical, or humorous |
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| a jingling poem of 3 long and 2 short lines, lines 1,2 and 5 rhyming with each other, and lines 3 and 4 rhyming with each other - often humorous or "dirty" |
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| a form of understatement that affirms something by negating its opposite, as in "She's no fool" |
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| the detailed presentation of regional realism, picturesque details of a scene particular to a region (dialect, customs, scenery, etc.) |
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| originally a poem sung to a lyre - now a poem primarily on the speaker's emotions or meditations (rather than a narrative content) |
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| an entertainment during the Renaissance wherein noblepersons performed a dignified playlet, usually allegorical and mythological, and lavishly produced |
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| a pointed statement alleging a truth, such as "Hope springs eternal in the human breast" |
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| a drama wherein "good" characters are pitted against "evil" ones in sensational situations filled with twists and suspense |
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| a figure of speech wherein an explicit comparison is made between 2 things without using the words "like" or "as" |
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| in a line or poetry the recognizable pattern of accented/stressed and unaccented/unstressed syllables |
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| a figure of speech wherein the name of one thing is used for another which it suggests or is related to, such as "the White House reports" is metonymy for "the executive branch reports" |
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| a long, complex funeral poem |
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| an extended solo speech during a play, given by one character, overheard but uninterrupted by others on stage |
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| the "air" or atmosphere of a work (calm, sinister, excited, suspenseful, somber, etc.) |
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| a recurrent word, phrase, situation, object or idea, repeated to unify a work |
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| any idea, true or false, to which people subscribe and which gives philosophic meaning to the facts of ordinary life |
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| a story, a tale (story-telling is narration) |
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| the portrayal of life in accurate, detached, non-selective realism |
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| light verse which makes absurd, amusing assertions - often jingles using nonexistent words, i.e. Carroll's "Jabberwocky" |
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| a fictional prose narrative of substantial length |
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| personality-free point of view when art reveals little or nothing of the artist - characters and images speak of their own and not the author's attitudes or values/beliefs |
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| the first 8 lines of a sonnet, rhyming in a set pattern, or any 8 line verse |
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| originally a song in honor of gods/heroes, but now a lyric poem, usually of considerable length and characterized by lofty feeling |
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