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| A short concentrated poem or song usually meditative often personal and sometimes philosophical. |
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| : A long narrative poem elevating character, speech and action |
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| Word choice, types of words, level of language. |
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| A figure of speech using “ like” with nouns and “as” with clauses |
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| Figure of speech in which human characteristics are attributed to non-human things |
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| Figure of speech that describes something as though it actually something else thereby enhancing understanding and insight. |
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| The addressing of a discourse to a real or imagined person who is not present also a speech to an abstract. |
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| a literary composition, in verse or prose, in which human folly and vice is held up to scorn, derision, or ridicule. |
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| a figure of speech by which a locution produces an incongruous, seemingly self-contradictory effect, as in “cruel kindness” or “to make haste slowly.” |
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| a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth. |
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| a major form of Japanese verse, written in 17 syllables divided into 3 lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables, and employing highly evocative allusions and comparisons, often on the subject of nature or one of the seasons. |
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| a kind of humorous verse of five lines, in which the first, second and fifth lines rhyme with each other, and the third and fourth lines, which are shorter, form a rhymed couplet. |
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| a poem written in elegiac (sad) meter. |
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| The emblem structure is a two-part structure that turns from an organized description of an object to a meditation on, a consideration of, the meaning of that object. |
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| is a type of meter that is used in poetry and drama. It describes a particular rhythm that the words establish in each line. That rhythm is measured in small groups of syllables; these small groups of syllables are called 'feet'. The word 'iambic' describes the type of foot that is used. The word 'pentameter' indicates that a line has five of these 'feet'. |
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| A kind of metrical foot. A trochee (the adjective is "trochaic") is a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed one |
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| The repetition of sounds, especially consonant sounds, within a passage of prose or verse |
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| correspondence of sounds; harmony of sounds. |
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| Also called vowel rhyme. Pros. rhyme in which the same vowel sounds are used with different consonants in the stressed syllables of the rhyming words, as in penitent and reticence. |
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| Poetry that overtly uses the effects of meter, rhyme and form, especially the fixed forms (sonnets, villanelles etc.) |
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| is a form based on unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter. |
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| is a form based on unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter. |
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| a pair of successive lines of verse, especially a pair that rhymes and is of the same length. |
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| a stanza or poem of four lines, usually with alternate rhymes. |
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| The standard minimal meaning of words without implications and connotations. |
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| The meaning that words suggest; the overtones of words beyond their bare dictionary definition or denotations as with “leave”, “get away” “depart” “Vamoose” which have the same meaning but different connotes. Broader word referring to what the word suggests. |
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| Word order and sentence structure an important mark of style, a writers syntactical patterns depending on the rhetorical needs of the literary work. |
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| Techniques and modes of presenting that reveal attitudes. |
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| a technique of indicating, as through character or plot development, an intention or attitude opposite to that which is actually or ostensibly stated. |
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| having a vocabulary composed primarily of monosyllables or short, simple words. |
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| a patterned repetition of a motif, formal element, etc., at regular or irregular intervals in the same or a modified form. |
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| poetic measure;an arrangement of words in regularly measured, patterned, or rhythmic lines or verses. |
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| refers to the analysis of a poem's meter. This is usually done by marking the stressed and unstressed syllables in each line and then, based on the pattern of the stresses, dividing the line into feet. |
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| is divided into two sections by two different groups of rhyming sounds. The first 8 lines are called the octave and rhymes |
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| The English sonnet has the simplest and most flexible pattern of all sonnets, consisting of 3 quatrains of alternating rhyme and a couplet |
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