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five iambs in a row: Iambic pentameter
used more by Greeks and Romans (Homer, Virgil), epic poetry, heroic: Dactylic hexameter
Trochee: pair of syllables that follows the stressed-unstressed pattern (standard)
Iamb: pair of syllables that follows the unstressed-stressed pattern (today)
Dactyl: three syllables, stressed-unstressed-unstressed (probably)
Anapest: three syllables, unstressed-unstressed-stressed (disengage), used in Limerick poetry
Spondee: two stressed syllables (hot dog)
Amphibrach: three syllables, unstressed-stressed-unstressed, (forgetful)
breaking of a sentence by the end of a line, L1: I think that I shall never see L2: A poem lovely as a tree.: Enjambment
The attribution of human emotions or characteristics to inanimate objects or to nature; for example, angry clouds; a cruel wind.: Pathetic fallacy
reversal of a normal order of words: Inversion
mournful, melancholic or plaintive poem, especially a funeral song or a lament for the dead: Elegy
brief, clever, and usually memorable statement: Epigram
leaps from one identification to a second identification inconsistent with the first. Example: "If we can hit that bullseye then the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards... Checkmate.": Mixed metaphor
lines of three, season word, originated in Japan: Haiku
â€œThere was a young man from Nantucketâ€¦â€: Limerick
tells a story, repeated words that donâ€™t rhyme, 39 lines: Sestina
A lyric poem of fourteen lines: Sonnet
lyrical verse written in praise of or dedicated to someone or something: Ode
quatrain, 2nd & 4th lines rhyme: Ballad stanza
four-lined stanza: Quatrain
poetry which refrains from meter patterns, rhyme or any other musical pattern: Free verse
form of satire that adapts the elevated heroic style of the classical epic poem to a trivial subject (Battle of the Frogs and the Mice): Mock epic
grammatically changing a phrase to make the rhyme fit The barber gave me a buzz Fine with it I was: Forced rhyme
The words themselves form a picture. This can be called imagery because you use your senses to figure out what the words mean.: Concrete Poetry
Reversed the natural order of the words (Yoda speak⬦): Inverted syntax
substitution of an agreeable or less offensive expression in place of one that may offend or suggest something unpleasant (it for excrement, the situation for pregnancy, going to the other side for death, do it or come together, tired and emotional for dr: Euphemism
Using an appropriate adjective (often habitually) to characterize a person or thing ("heartfelt thanks," "wine-dark sea," "blood-red sky," "fleet-footed Achilles," "stone-cold heart"): Epithet
a wise saying, short and written (Lost time is never found again. â€“ Ben Franklin): Aphorism
refrain of vowel sounds to create internal rhyming within phrases or sentences, Do you like blue?: Assonance
background information is given to understand the story better, characters are introduced, setting is established: Exposition
character that usually shows many sides of personality and shows growth or maturity in the story: Round character
The final resolution or clarification of a dramatic or narrative plot: Denouement
the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named (e.g., cuckoo, sizzle): Onomatopoeia
noun or noun phrase that renames another noun right beside it (The insect, a cockroach, is crawling across the kitchen table.): Appositive
An action verb with a direct object (Zippy accidentally hit Maurice in the head.): Transitive verb
noun or pronoun that receives the action of a verb or shows the result of the action (Zippy accidentally hit Maurice in the head.): Direct Object
noun you cannot detect with your senses (bravery, loyalty, fear, etc): Abstract Noun
Having been thrown in the air, the dog caught the stick. Mistake: accidentally saying something you didnâ€™t mean to say: Dangling modifier
Ow! Hey!: Interjections
shows where or relationship, above, below, for, to, etc.: Preposition
The, an, a, etc. introduces a noun or noun phrase: Article
figure of speech that makes a reference to, or representation of, a place, event, literary work, myth, or work of art, either directly or by implication: Allusion
a principle in English writing that suggests that things that come in threes are inherently funnier, more satisfying, or more effective than other numbers of things: Rule of Three
Repeating a sound, syllable, word, phrase, line, stanza, or metrical pattern is a basic unifying device in all poetry.: Repetition
a turn from the general audience to address a specific group of people: Apostrophe
two words that end in a similar sound but do not exactly rhyme Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without the words, And never stops at all. (Emily Dickenson): Slant rhyme
it is the pattern of end rhymes or lines Bid me to weep, and I will weep â€“ A While I have eyes to see; - B And having none, and yet I will keep â€“ A A heart to weep for thee. - B: Rhyme Scheme
SQ3R: Survey, Question, Read, Recite, Review
QAR: Question, Answer, Relationship
KWL: Know, Want to Know, Learned
When two or more words in a poem begin with the same letter or sound. â€œDressy Daffodilsâ€ or â€œCaring Catsâ€ â€“ Like rhyming but in the frontâ€¦: Alliteration
occurs when you use words with connotations that make a false connection (â€œSince Catholics believe in God and Muslims believe in God, Catholics must be Muslims.â€): Faulty logic
the use of an unnecessarily large number of words to express an idea: Circumlocution
substitution of a word for a word with a similar sound, in which the resulting phrase makes no sense but often creates a comic effect ("We heard the ocean is infatuated with sharks"): Malapropism
WRONG: He liked to play basketball and riding horses. RIGHT: He liked playing basketball and riding horses.: Faulty parallelism
mom, wow, Madam I am Adam, etc.: Palindrome
a short narrative, generally between 50 and 100 pages long: Novella
A reader looks at a word consisting of a variety of letters and letter combinations and translates the visual image into speech sounds.: Graphophonic analysis
the process of analyzing a text to determine its grammatical structure: syntactic analysis
Examining the structure of a sentence to determine need for commas, etc.: Structural clues
an approach that teaches the relation of the letters (graphemes) to the sounds (phonemes) they represent to teach reading: Phonic approach
words or phrases to help with the understanding of the new word - in the sentence(s) itself: Context clues
an insulting or abusive word or expression: Invective
Eight lines of iambic pentameter - Rhyme scheme (abba abba): Octave
To boldly go where no man has gone before!: Split infinitive
To go where no man has gone before.: Infinitive
"All hands on deck," meaning all sailors to report for duty. Hands = sailors. A figure of speech which mentions a part of something to suggest the whole.: Synecdoche
the injured boy holds up his hand "as if to keep / the life from spilling." A figure of speech that uses a concept closely related to the thing actually meant. The substitution makes the analogy more vivid and meaningful.: Metonymy
I knew I had found a friend in the woman, who herself was a lonely soul, never having known the love of man or child. (Emma Goldman) (makes its major point at the beginning and then adds subordinate phrases and clauses that develop or modify the po: Loose sentence
The peasant pledged the country his loyalty; loyalty was his only possession. My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, And every tongue brings in a several tale, And every tale condemns me for a villain.â€“Shakespeare, Richard III.: Anadiplosis
a man forgotten (instead of a forgotten man) In Xanada did Kubla Kahn / A stately pleasure dome decree (instead of In Xanadu, Kubla Kahn decreed a stately pleasure dome): Anastrophe
slang or informality in speech or writing: colloquialism
Words an actor speaks to the audience which other actors on the stage cannot hear: Aside
Prevailing mood or atmosphere in a literary work.: Tone
placing dissimilar items or ideas close together, especially for comparison purposes in Fahrenheit 911, when he plays the song "What a Wonder full World" while playing scenes of war and violence: Juxtaposition
the literal meaning of a word, the dictionary meaning: Denotation
Flowers are lovely, love is flowerlike.: Chiasmus
serious talk, speech, or lecture, especially for spiritual or moral purposes: Homily
the nonliteral, implied, or suggested meaning: Connotation
style of speaking or writing as dependent upon choice of words: Diction
to draw a reasonable conclusion from information presented: Inference
the ordinary language people use in speaking or writing: Prose
the art of speaking or writing effectively: Rhetoric
"Despite heavy winds and nearly impenetrable ground fog, the plane landed safely." A sentence in which the main clause or its predicate is withheld until the end: Periodic sentence
the general idea or insight about life that a writer wishes to express: Theme
a literary work holding up human vices and follies to ridicule or scorn: Satire
a clause that can stand by itself, also known as a simple sentence: Independent clause
Oscar to Felix Fred to Barney a character that contrasts second character that highlights certain qualities of that first character: Foil
"I came, I saw, I conquered." a stylistic scheme in which conjunctions are deliberately omitted from a series of related clauses: Asyndterm
My stick fingers click with a snicker And, chuckling, they knuckle the keys harsh, discordant sounds: Cacophony
recurrent thematic element in an artistic or literary work: Motif
"storm of swords" for "battle" a magic poetic phrase, a figure of speech, substituted for the usual name of a person or thing: Kenning
I awoke to black flak. rhyming within a line.: Internal rhyming
"Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall." - William Shakespeare a figure of speech in which words that naturally belong together are separated from each other for emphasis or effect: Hyperbaton
O star (the fairest one in sight) soothing pleasant sounds: Euphony
a piece of writing at the end of a work of literature or drama, usually used to bring closure to the work: Epilogue
The writer interprets a work of visual art and then creates a narrative in verse form that represents his or her reaction to that painting, photograph, sculpture or other artistic creation.: Ekphrastic poetry
Another word for circumlocution...: Periphrasis
smog is the combination of smoke and fog combination of two or more words to create a new word: Portmanteau
preface to the story. It sets up the story.: Prologue
time and lpace in fiction: Setting
⬢"When I address Fred I never have to raise either my voice or my hopes.": Syllepsis
"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something." (Plato): Ellipsis
lend me your ears (give me your attention): Synecdoche
Something that has the appearance of being true or real: Verisimilitude
(Writing style) tells a personal or fictional experience or tells a story based on a real or imagined event: Narrative
(Writing style) designed to convey information or explain what is difficult to understand: Expository
(Writing style) attempts to convince the reader to accept a particular point of view or to take a specific action: Persuasive
study of the history of words and how their form and meaning have changed over time: Etymology
a saying, expression or idea, which has been overused to the point of losing its original meaning or effect rendering it a stereotype: Cliché
My room is a mess! to the far left of my room is a moldy half-eaten pizza laying up against the wall. in the center of the room is a bed... the order of where things are placed: Spatial order
study of how meaning is generated in language: Semantics
a reading technique where the reader looks for specific information rather than trying to absorb all the information: Scanning
reading a text to get the gist, the basic overall idea, rather than concentrating on absorbing all the details: Skimming
approach looks at language at a particular point in time, rather than over time: Synchronic
study of the rules governing sentence structure, the way words work together to make up a sentence: Syntax
a poem where the first letter of each line form a word or phrase when read together: Acrostic
...: Ellipsis
a principal form of division in a long poem, especially the epic: Canto
a form of verse, often a narrative and set to music particularly characteristic of British and Irish popular poetry and song from the later medieval period until the 19th century: Ballad
both . . . and either . . . or just as . . . so neither . . . nor not only . . . but also whether . . . or.: Correlative conjunctions
In time the savage bull sustains the yoke, In time all haggard hawks will stoop to lure, In time small wedges cleave the hardest oak, Repeating a sequence of words at the beginnings of neighboring clauses, thereby lending them emphasis.: Anaphora
When the author develops the character through his actions, dialogue, thoughts, apprearance, or other characters reactions: Indirect Characterization
the method of character development in which the author simply tells what the character is like: Direct Characterization
Intended or inclined to teach or instruct, often excessively.: Didactic
Events turn out to be opposite of what was expected. For example, if the president of Microsoft, Bill Gates, were to win a contest whose grand prize was a computer system.: Situational Irony
A situation in which the audience knows something about present or future circumstances that the character does not know... Oedipus Rex by Sophocles in which Oedipus searches to find the murderer of the former king of Thebes, only to discover th: Dramatic Irony
a work created to mock, comment on, or poke fun at an original work, its subject, author, style, or some other target, by means of humorous, satiric or ironic imitation: Parody
Overly scholarly tone: Pedantic
A form of deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion.: Syllogism
A statement which can have two or more meanings: Ambiguity
The book is big. "Big" - following a linking verb and modifies the subject.: Predicate adjective
At the end of the tournament, Tiger Woods was the leader. "leader" - noun following a linking verb that restates or stands for the subject: Predicate nominative
Ben is a policeman. "Policeman" - a noun or an adjective that follows a verb like to be, to become, to appear, to feel, to look, to smell, to taste: Subject complement
A group of words that has both a subject and a verb but cannot stand alone as a sentence. *Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority*, it is time to pause and reflect." (Mark Twain): Subordinate clause
opposition, or contrast of ideas or words in a balanced or parallel construction Brutus: Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more. Shakespeare, Julius Caesar: Antithesis
a novelistic variation of the monomyth that concentrates on the spiritual, moral, psychological, or social development and growth of the protagonist usually from childhood to maturity. Sometimes it is referred to as a "Coming Of Age Story.": Bildungsroman
An expression in one language that cannot be matched or directly translated word-for-word in another language. "She has a bee in her bonnet," meaning "she is obsessed," cannot be literally translated into another language word for word.: Idiom
a phrase or verse recurring at intervals in a song or poem, esp. at the end of each stanza; chorus: Refrain
The atomosphere created by the piece.: Mood
Attitute the author takes towards the subject: Tone
Oral historian, storyteller: Griot

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