literary terms pt 2
Terms
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- denotation
- literal definition of a word
- didactic
- teaching or instrucing
- digession
- passage hat deviates fromhe central theme
- dramatic irony
- the audience knows something the character dosen't
- elegy
- a forman poem meditating on death or another solemn theme
- end stopped
- a line of poetrytha stops when the grammatical unt ends
- enjambment
- poetr in which the sense and grammatical construction continue
- epigram
- a pithy saying
- epithet
- a phrase or word used to point out a characteristic
- euphemism
- a term used to replace directness of a statement to avoid offense
- euphony
- pleasant sounding voiced consonants
- heroic couplet
- iambic pentameter lines in rhymed pairs
- hexameter
- 6 lines of verse
- hyperbole
- a figure of speech in which one says more than he means
- iamb
- foot of 2 syllables
- inconguity
- linking of 2 incompatible things
- literary present tense
- used when writing about imaginative lit
- epiphany
- realization
- jargon
- gibberish
- line length
- terms for different line lengths, with a numerical prefix