2nd Part ~ English Language, Literature, and Composition Content Knowledge
2nd Part ~ English Language, Literature, and Composition Content Knowledge
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- satire
- The literary art of ridiculing a folly or vice in order to expose or correct it. The object of satire is usually some human frailty
- a sestina
- is a poem consisting of six six-line stanzas and a three-line envoy.
- masculine rhyme
- is a rhyme on a single stressed syllable at the end of a line of poetry
- mock epic
- a long narrative poem that lightly parodies or mimics the conventions of classical epic. Whitman's elaborate "invocation" of a muse in "Song of the Exposition" is a mock-epic device.
- series of flashbacks
- a transition (in literary or theatrical works or films) to an earlier event or scene
- omniscient character
- knows everything about the story including all characters, action, places, and events. Because of this all-knowing and all-seeing,
- apostrophe
- when a speaker breaks off and addresses an imaginary person, abstract quality, or idea, as he would a person in his presence.
- interior monologue
- A passage of writing presenting a character's inner thoughts and emotions in a direct, sometimes disjointed or fragmentary.
- hyperbole
- A boldly exaggerated statement that adds emphasis without in-tending to be literally true, as in the statement "He ate everything in the house."
- ballad stanza
- A four-line stanza, known as a quatrain, consisting of alternating eight- and six-syllable lines.
- understatement
- The opposite of hyperbole, understatement (or litotes) refers to a figure of speech that says less than is intended.
- a sonnet
- A 14-line verse form usually having one of several conventional rhyme schemes.
- haiku
- A Japanese lyric verse form having three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables
- free verse
- free verse refers to poems characterized by their nonconformity to established patterns of meter, rhyme, and stanza. Usually doesn't rhyme.
- a mixed metaphor
- are different metaphors occurring in the same utterance , especially the same sentence, that are used to express the same concept.
- rhymed couplets
- is a pair of lines of verse. It usually consists of two lines that rhyme and have the same meter.
- feminine rhyme
- is a rhyme that matches two or more syllables, usually at the end of respective lines.
- oxymoron
- A condensed form of paradox in which two contradictory words are used together, as in "sweet sorrow" or "original copy."
- an ode
- A lyric poem of some length, usually of a serious or meditative nature and having an elevated style and formal stanzaic structure.
- forced rhyme
- because it does exactly that; forces the rhyme where it should not otherwise be.