AMND Terms
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- bard
- a tribal poet-singer skilled in composing and reciting verses on heroes and their deeds. (The Bard of Avon-William Shakespeare)
- iamb
- a specific type of metrical foot; a unit of two syllables, one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed
- metrical foot
- a group of syllables that serves as a unit of measure in poetry. Each foot contains one stressed syllable.
- hyperbole
- an exaggeration for effect
- malapropism
- a misuse of words, especially through confusion caused by resemblance in sound.
- blank verse
- unrhymed poetry which has five iambic feet per line
- deus ex machina
- literally "god from the machine"; in Greek/Roman drama the god lowered to the stage by machinery to resolve the conflict and extricate the protagonist from difficult situations.
- oxymoron
- a figure of speech in which opposite or contradictory ideas or terms are combined (ex. thunderous silence)
- pun
- a play on words, sometimes on different senses of the same word and sometimes on the similar sense or sound of different words.
- soliloquy
- a speech in which a character talks to himself or herself or reveals his or her thoughts without addressing a listener.
- heroic couplet
- two lines of rhyming iambic pentameter
- iambic pentameter
- poetry in which each line consists of five iambic feet (see above)