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| the denouement or unknotting of the conflict or catastrophe of the plot |
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| a point in the falling action of a drama where the protagonist loses power |
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| the repetition of identical or similar stressed sound or sounds |
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| meter in poetry, recurring at even and regular intervals |
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| the exposition and complication in drama on its way to crisis or climax |
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| a direct descendant of the epic; tales of adventures, strange lands, lovers, with an emphasis on the unusual -- the adventure itself is more important than the character |
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| a line which has its sense carried over into the next line of poetry without pause; the same thing as enjambment |
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| verbal irony which is crude and heavy-handed rather than clever |
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| a literary work ridiculing aspects of human behavior and seeking to arouse contempt for the object -- satire aims to correct by ridiculing |
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| the marking of foot and meter in a line or poetry -- to "scan" a line |
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| a smaller unit of an act in drama or opera |
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| the last 6 lines of a sonnet, rhyming in a set pattern |
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| the locale which contributes to atmosphere |
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| a figure of speech which makes an explicit comparison between 2 essentially unlike things, and using the words "like" or "as" in making that comparison |
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| farce that relies on physical contact and assault |
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| a speech in drama where a character speaks thoughts aloud while alone on stage |
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| a 14 line formal poem, comprised of an octave (which sets up a problem or poses a question) and a sestet (which responds to the problem or question) and following very set rules of meter and rhyme |
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| a foot having 1 stressed syllable and any number of unstressed syllables following |
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| a unit or "paragraph" in poetry comprising a group of lines |
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| a conventional character of a TYPE, a stereotype that recurs in works (like the braggart soldier, the pious hypocrite, the imposter, the dazed/foolish lover, etc.) |
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| a literary device or novel type characterized by the flux of thought/mental activity ranging from complete consciousness to unconsciousness with lots of interior monologue |
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| the "pitch" or accent on a syllable done by voice |
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| a part of a choral ode in ancient Greek drama wherein the chorus dances and sings a certain patter |
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| emotional, personal (but not too idiosyncratic) emphasis; interpretive |
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| a movement to go beyond the "real" to the "super-real' which includes the unconscious, dreams, subjectivity, etc. |
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| uncertainty (often with anxiety) in writing; tension |
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| a sign of something other than its literal meaning -- that image which stands of another or "higher" meaning than the literal one |
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| a figure of speech wherein the part is substituted for the whole, or the whole is used in place of one of its part: i.e. "I spy a sail" is synecdouche for "I see a ship," |
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| a description of one sensory experience in terms of another -- "a fly's blue buss," "the smell of death," "I hear your eyes' message" |
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