English Week Four
Terms
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- exegesis
- detailed annalysis, explination and interpretation of a passage
- existentialism
- philosophy that focuses on the individual's experience, recognition, and triumph over the meaninglessness of existance.
- extended metaphore
- metaphor or implied comparision that is sutained for several lines or that becomes the controlling image of an entire poem
- external conflict
- character's struggle against nature or another character
- fancy
- an aspect of imagination that often involved wishful thinking or whim.
- foil
- character who, by contrast, points up the qualities of a another character
- foregrounding
- calling attention to something by placing it in the foreground against a background
- free verse
- type of poetry that is "free" of regular beat of meter, dependin gon the individual's sensitivity to the music of natural speech rhythms
- genre
- a type of literary work
- gloss
- an explination, definition, or interpretation of a difficult, foreign, or technical word or passage