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- negative capability
- when one is in a state of uncertainty, mystery and doubt without any grasping for logic or reason
- refrain
- a word, phrase, line, or group of lines repeated regularly in a poem
- romance
- any movement that is set in an idealized world and that deals with heroic adventures and battles between good and evil
- quatrain
- usually a stanza or poem of four lines
- alliteration
- the repetition of similar aounds, usually consonants or consonat clusters in a group of words.
- narrative poem
- a poem that tells a story
- kenning
- an elaborate phrase that describes persons, things, or events in a metephorical and indirect way
- heroic couplet
- iambic pentameter couplet
- incremental repetition
- the repetition of a previous line or lines, but with a slight variation each time, that advances the narrative stanza by stanza
- plot
- the sequence of events or actions in a short story, novel, play, or narrative poem
- antagonist
- A person or force apposing the protangonist in a narrative, a rival of the hero or heroine.
- poetics of contraries
- a theory that states that it is impossible to understand one concept unless you also understand it's opposite
- hyperbole
- a figure of speech using exaggeration or overstatment for special effect
- denouement
- the outcome of a plot
- couplet
- two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme
- motif
- a recurring feature in a work of literature
- verbal irony
- the speaker says one thing and means another
- exemplum
- a tale, usually inserted into the text of a sermon, that illustrates a moral principle
- catharsis
- strong release of emotion from the audience (gasp)
- emblematic image
- a verbal picture or figure with a long tradtion of moral or religious meaning attached to it
- iambic pentameter
- a poetic line consisting of five verse feet with every other foot being stressed or unstressed
- paradox
- a statement that reveals a kind of truth slthough at first it seems to be self-contradictory and untrue
- octave
- an eight line poem or stanza
- frame tale
- a story within a story
- romantic meditative ode
- 1) the description of a particular natural scene 2) an extended meditation which the scene stimulates universal situation or both; 3) the occurence of an insight a resolution or a decision, which signals a return to the scene originally described, but with a new perspective created by the intervening meditation
- allegory
- a tale in verse or prose in which characters, actions, or settings, represent abstract ideas or moral qualities.
- imagery
- words or phrases that create pictures, or images, in the readers mind
- ode
- a complex and often lengthy lyric poem written in a dignified formal style on some lofty or serious subject
- situational irony
- the writer shows a discrepancy between the expected results of some action or situation and it's actual results
- aside
- In drama, lines spoken by a character in an undertone or directly to the audience.
- foreshadowing
- the use of hints or clues in a narrative to sugest what will happen later
- carpe diem tradition
- a tradition literally meaning "seize the day"
- epic
- a long narrative poem telling about the deeds of a great hero and reflecting the values of the society from which it originated
- climax
- the point of greatest intensity, interest, or suspense in a narrative
- in media res
- a technique of plunging into the middle of a story and only later using a flashback to tell what has happened previously; "in the middle"
- blank verse
- verse written in unrhymed iambic pentameter
- dramatic irony
- when we as the reader know something the characters don't
- ballad
- a story told in verse and usually meant to be a song
- apostrophe
- A figure of speece in which an absent or a dead person, an abstract quality, or something, nonhuman is addressed directly.
- metaphysical conceit
- an especially unusual or intellectual comparisson
- invocation
- at the beginning of an epic a call to a muse, god, or spirit for inspiration
- lyrics
- a poem, usually a short one, that expresses a speaker's personal thoughts or feelings
- iambic quatrameter
- an eight syllable line that flucuates between unstressed and stressed syllables
- double entendre
- a phrase with two meanings; the first of which is straight forward, the other is humorous and sexual
- meter
- a generally regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry
- bob and a wheel
- a short line of one, two or three syllables followed by four rhymed lines
- foil
- a character who sets off another charcter by contrast
- personification
- a figure of speech in which something nonhuman is given human qualities
- satire
- a kind of writing that holds up to ridicule or contempt the weakness and wrong-doings of individuals, groups, institutions, or humanity in general
- metaphor
- a figure of speech that makes a comparisson between two things that are basically dissimilar
- conflict
- struggle between two opposing forces or characters in a short story, novel, play, or narrative poem
- allusion
- A reference to a person, a place, an event, or a literary work that a writer expectts the reader to recognize and respond to.
- caesura
- a break or pause in a line of poetry
- conceit
- a kind of metaphor that makes a comparison between two startlingly different things
- pastoral
- a type of peom that deals in an idealized way with shepherds and rustic life comes from the Latin word for shepherd
- protagonist
- the central character of a drama, novel, short story, or narrative poem