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| A syllable given more prominence in pronunciation than its neighbors is said to be accented |
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| A narrative or description having a second meaning beneath the surface one |
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The repetition at close intervals of the initial consonant sounds of accented syllables or important words
Ex. map-moon, kill-code, preach-approve |
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| A reference, explicit or implicit, to something in literature or history |
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| In metrical verse, the omission of an unaccented syllable at the beginning of a line |
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A metrical foot consisting of two unaccented syllables followed by one accented syllable.
Ex. un-der-stand |
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| A meter in which a majority of the feet are anapests (Also see Triple Meter) |
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| A figure of speech in which someone absent or dead or something nonhuman is addressed as if it were alive and present and could reply |
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A term used for words in a riming pattern that have some kind of sound correspondence but are not perfect rimes
Ex. Push-Rush
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| The repition at close intervals of the vowel sounds of accented syllables, or important words |
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| A poem about dawn, a morning love song, or a poem about the parting of lovers at dawn |
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| A fairly short narrative poem written in a songlike stanza form |
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| Unrimed Iambic Pentameter |
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| A harsh, discordant, unpleasant-sounding choice and arrangement of sound |
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| See Grammatical Pause and Rhetorical Pause |
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| What a word suggests beyond its basic definition; a word's overtones of meaning |
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| That form of a poem in which the lines follow each other without formal grouping, the only breaks being dictated by units of meaning |
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| Two successive lines, usually in the same meter, linked by rime |
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A metrical foot consisting of one accented syllable followed by two unaccented syllables
Ex. Mer-ri-ly |
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| A Meter in which a majority of the feet are dactyls |
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| The basic definition or dictionary meaning of a word |
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| Poetry having as a primary purpose to teach or preach |
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| A metrical line containing two feet |
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A rime in which the repeated vowel is in the second last syllabe of the words involved
Ex. Politely-Rightly-Spritely |
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| The situation, whether actual or fictual, realistic or fanciful, in which an author places his or her characters in order to express the theme. |
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| A meter in which a majority of the feet contain two syllables. Iambic and Trochaic are both duple meters. |
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| Rimes that occur at the ends of the lines |
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| A line that ends with a natural speech pause, usually marked by punctuation |
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| English (Or Shakespearean) Sonnet |
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| A sonnet riming ababcdcdefefgg. Its content or structure ideally parallels the rime scheme, falling into three coordinate quatrains and a concluding couplet; but it is often structured, like the Italian sonnet, into octave and sestet, the principal break in thought coming at the end of the 8th line. |
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| A smooth, pleasant-sounding choice and arrangement of sounds |
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| The Rhythmic Expectation set up by the basic meter of a poem |
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| A figure of speech sustained or developed through a considerable number of lines through a whole poem |
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| In metrical verse, extra unaccented syllables added at the beginnings or endings of lines; these may be either a feature of the metrial form of a poem or occur as exceptions to the form. |
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A rime in which the repeated accented vowel is in either the second or third last syllable of the words involved
Ex. Ceiling-Appealing, Hurrying-Scurrying |
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| Language employing figures of speech; language that cannot be taken literally or only literally |
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| Broadly, any way of saying something other than the ordinary way; more narrowly, a way of saying one thing and meaning another. |
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| Any form of poem in which the length and pattern are prescribed by previous usage or tradition such as sonnet, limerick or haiku |
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| A narrative poem designed to be sung, composed by an anonymous author, and transmitted orally for years or generations before being written down. |
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| The basic unit used in the scansion or measurement of metrical verse. A foot usually contains one accented syllable and one or two unaccented syllables. |
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| The external pattern or shape of a poem, describable without reference to its content |
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| Nonmetrical poetry in which the basic rhythmic unit is the line, and natural speech rhythms replace metrical regularity as a formal device |
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| Grammatical Pause (Caesura) |
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| A pause introduced into the reading of a line by a mark of punctuation. |
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| A three line poem, Japanese in origin, narrowly conceived of as a fixed form in which the lines contain respectively five, seven, and five syllables. |
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| The actual rhythm of a metrical poem as we hear it when it is read naturally. The heard rhythm mostly conforms to but sometimes departs from or modifies the expected rhythm. |
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| A metrical line containing 6 feet |
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A metrical foot consisting of one unaccented syllable followed by one accented syllable
Ex. Re-Hearse |
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| A meter in which the majority of feet are iambs. |
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| The representation through language of sense experience |
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| A rime in which one or both of the rime words occur within the line |
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A situation or a use of language involving some kind of incongruity or discrepancy
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| A figure of speech in which what is meant is the opposite of what is said |
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| A device in which the author implies a different meaning from that intended by the speaker in a literary work |
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| A situation in which there is an incongruity between actual circumstances and those that would seem appropriate or between what is anticipated and what actually comes to pass |
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| Italian (Or Petrarchan) Sonnet |
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| A sonnet consisting of an octave riming abbaabba and of a sestet using any arrangement of two or three additional rimes, such as cdcdcd or cdecde. |
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| A fixed form consisting of five lines of anapestic meter, the first two trimeter, the next two dimeter, the last line trimeter, riming aabba, used exclusively for humorous or nonsense verse |
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A rime in which the repeated accented vowel sound is in the final syllable of the words involved
Ex. Dance-Pants, Scald-Recalled |
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| A figure of speech in which an implicit comparison is made between two things essentially unlike. |
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| The regular patterns of accent that underlie metrical verse; the measurable repitition of accented and unaccented syllables in poetry. |
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| A figure of speech in which some significant aspect or detail of an experience is used to represent the whole experience. |
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| Departures from the basic metrical pattern |
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| A metrical line containing one foot |
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| The use of words that supposedly mimic their meaning in their sound |
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| Overstatement (Or Hyperbole) |
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| A figure of speech in which exaggeration is used in the service of truth |
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| A statement or situation containing apparently contradictory or incompatible elements |
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A situation containing apparently but not actually incompatible elements.
Ex. Celebration of a 5th birthday party for a 25 year old man is paradoxical but explainable if he were born on Feb. 29th |
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| A figure of speech in which an apparently self-contradictory statement is nevertheless found to be true |
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| A restatement of the content of a poem designed to make its prose meaning as clear as possible. |
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| A metrical line containing 5 feet |
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| A figure of speech in which human attributes are given to an animal, an object, or a concept |
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| A word whose sound, by an obscure process, to some degree suggests its meaning. |
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| Nonmetrical Language, the opposite of verse |
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| That part of a poem's total meaning that can be separated out and expressed through paraphrase |
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| Usually a short composition having the intentions of poetry but written in prose rather than verse |
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| A repeated word, phrase, line, or group of lines, normally at some fixed position in a poem written in stanzaic form |
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| A natural pause, unmarked by punctuation, introduced into the reading of a line by its phrasing or syntax. |
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| Poetry using artificially eloquent language, that is, language too high-flown for its occasion and unfaithful to the full complexity of human experience |
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| In natural speech, as in prose and poetic writing, the stressing of words or syllables so as to emphasize meaning and sentence structure |
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The repition of the accented vowel sound and all succeeding sounds in important or importantly positioned words.
Ex. Cold-Old, Vain-Reign, Court-Report, etc. |
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| Any fixed pattern of rimes caracterizing a whole poem or its stanzas |
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| A line which has no natural speech pause at its end, allowing the sense to flow uninterruptedly into the succeeding line. |
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| A kind of literature that ridicules human folly or vice with the purpose of bringing about reform or of keeping others from falling into similar folly or vice. |
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| The process of measuring metrical verse, that is, of marking accented and unaccented syllables, dividing the lines into feet, identifying the metrical pattern, and noting significant variations from that pattern |
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| Poetry aimed primarily at stimulating the emotions rather than at communicating experience honestly and freshly. |
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| A figure of speech in which an explicit comparison is made between two things essentially unlike. |
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| A fixed form of 14 lines, normally iambic pentameter, with a rime scheme conforming to or approximating one of two main types |
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A metrical foot consisting of two syllables equally or almost equally accented
Ex. True-Blue |
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| A group of lines whose metrical pattern is repeated throughout the poem |
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| The form taken by a poem when it is written in a series of units having the same number of lines and usually other characteristics in common, such as metrical pattern or rime scheme. |
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| The internal organization of a poems content |
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| In metrical verse, the replacement of the expected metrical foot by a different one |
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| Verse measured by the number of syllables rather than the number of fet per line |
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| A figure of speech in which something means more than what it is. May be read both literally and metaphorically |
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| A figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole. |
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| An interlocking rime scheme with the pattern aba bcb cdc, etc. |
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| A metrical line containing 4 feet |
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| The central idea of a literary work |
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| The writer's, or speaker's attitude toward the subject, the audience or his/herself; the emotional coloring of a work |
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| The total experience communicated by a poem |
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| A metrical line containing 3 feet |
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| A meter in which a majority of the feet contain 3 syllables |
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| A meter in which the majority of feet are trochees |
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A metrical foot consisting of one accented syllable followed by one unaccented syllable
Ex. Bar-ter |
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| A figure of speech that consists of saying less than one means, or of saying what one means with less force than the occasional warrants |
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| Metrical Language, the opposite of prose |
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