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| intangible idea or quality, such as hope or bitterness |
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| refers to something real-something which can be touched, seen, heard, tasted, or felt-such as table, smoke, fire, chocolate |
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the repetition of sounds, usually consonant sounds at the beginnings of words in the same line or in successive line. For exampple:
- the fair breeze blew, the white foam flew |
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| reference to a presumably amiliar person, object, place or event, or to a literary, historical work etc, which the writer expects will be recognized by his readers |
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the direct adress to a deceased or absent person as if that person were alive and present, or to an animal or thing, or an abstract idea or quality as if it could understand the speaker.
often used with personification
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repetition of vowel sounds followed by different consonants
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- the clIffs of England stand,
GlImmering and vast, out In the tranguIl bay |
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| pervasive emotional element or influence |
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relatively short poem that tells a store
folk ballad: meant to sing
literary ballad: meant to be read |
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| most common stanza used in ballads; quatrain (4 lines) with second and fourth line rhyming |
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| unrhymed poetry, in which each line usually has 10 syllables, 5 are stressed |
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| peron in a play, story, novel, poem |
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| creation of a literary character by such methods as description of physical appearance, presentation of thoughs and actions, and dialogue |
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| manner of speaking that is characteristic of informal conversation |
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| association or suggestion which a world calls to mind in addition to its literal meanings |
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| for a word, the other words surrounding it and having an effect on its meaning or use |
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| two successive lines, usually rhymed, which form a single unit of verse |
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| the literal or dictionary meaning of a word |
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| the characteristic or distinctive speech of a particular group or the inhabitants of a certain geographical region |
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| type of poem in which a speaker addresses a listener who do not answer, it reveals his or her character by commenting on a crucial problem or conflict |
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poetry in which one or more characters speak to other characters who may o may not answer
dramatic monologue is one type of dramatic poetry |
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| poem mourning the deathof an individual |
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| long story-poem which relates the deeds of a heroic character |
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| language that is not meant to be interpreted on a strict, literal leve because it would make no sense if it were. the "meaning" of a figurative phrase is communicated byits connotation. |
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| word or phrase which describes something in a way that is not literally true, but may be meaningful in a deepper sense |
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| unit used in measuring lines of poetry to determine meter |
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| poetry that does not have a stric or fixed rhythmic pattern or equal line lengths, and which does not rhyme |
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| in its simplest form, irony is a figure of speech in which the writer says something in such a way that its opposite meaning is implied |
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| verse which is primarily humorous or entertaining |
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poem whose sole purpose is the expression of an individual
s emotions or attitudes, usually short and musical |
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| figure of speech in which one thing is compared indirectly to another essentially dissimilar thing, without the use of "like" or "as" |
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| organized rhythmic pattern created by the repetition of the same foot, or group of stressed and unstressed syllables, throughout the poem |
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| the overall emotional atmosphere or feeling in a literary work |
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| an ethical or practical lesson, usually illustrated by a story |
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| poem that tells a story, whether briefy as in the ballad or at length as in the epic |
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| one who tells or narrates a story |
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| lyric poem which is lofty and dignified in subject matter and style |
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| the use of words whose sounds imitate natural sounds. For example: bang, neigh, cluck |
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| seemingly self-contradictory statement which nevertheless reveals some truth. for example: the child is father of the man |
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| the conscious, exaggerated imitation of a literary style or individual work with the intentionof achieving humor through distortion |
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| figure of speech in which the writer attributes human qualities to animal, inanimate objects, or ideas |
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| words arranged in such a way that they reverse in some manner the normal word order of a sentence |
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| the standpoint form which a literary work is written, usually influences the way the writer presents a subject |
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| group of wods, a line, or a group of lines repeated throughout a poem, usually at the end of each stanza |
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the repetition of two or more words reasonably close to each other in which the last vowel sound and the last consonant sound are the same
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| the pattern in which end rhyme occurs throughout a stanza or an entire poem |
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| in poetry, the recurrence or repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables in a regular pattern or manner |
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| the use of ridicule, sarcasm, wit, or irony in order to expose, set right, or destroy a vice or folly |
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| the method of determining the meter of a poem, when one "scans" a line, one counts the number and determines the type of poetic feet in that line |
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| the physical background of a work |
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| figure of speech in which the comparison between two unlike things is expressed directly, usually by means of "like" or "as" |
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| lyric poem of fourteen lines usually written in rhymed iambic pentmameter |
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| the person whose voice we "hear" in the poem |
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| group of lines that constitutes a division in a poem, there is a space before the first line and after the last line of each group |
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| in a poem, generally a figure of speech in which an object, person, place, event, or quality is chosen to stand for something other than itself- something which is not directly mentioned or compared in the poem |
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| the central idea or one of the main ideas underlying a literary work |
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| the poet's or speaker's attitude toward his or her subject or audience. tone corresponds to tone in speaking, the tone of a poem might be angry, humorous, ironic, tender, etc |
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| character who embodies the characteristics of a group or class rather than a strong individual personality |
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| work consisting of metrical or rhythmical lines made up of a specified number of feet. verse may also be used as a synonym for poetry |
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