Midterm App. Lit.
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- certain letter, usually the 1st letters, form a word or message relating to the subject
- Acrostic
- repition of sounds, usually consonants, of stressed syllables;slimy snake
- Alliteration
- implied or indirect reference to something assumed to be known, such as a historical event
- Allusion
- relatively close juxtaposition or similar vowell sound but with different consonance; date and fade
- Assonance
- short narrative poem with stanzas of two or four that tell a story, usually a song; last words of 2nd and 4th lines rhyming
- Ballad
- written without rhymes, with a set metrical pattern; english verse
- Blank Verse
- meaning of a word beyond what it explicitly describes; home=security, family, love
- Connotation
- 2 lines of poetry with end words that rhyme; shortest stanze form
- Couplet
- literal dictionary meaning of a word
- Denotation
- english form of heroic quatrain; elgiac meter abab
- Elgiac stanza
- rhyme occuring in terminating word or symbol of one line of poetry with that of another line
- End rhyme
- unit of rhyme or meter
- Foot
- a fluid form which conforms to no set rules of traditional versification
- Free verse
- a bold overstatement not intended to be taken literally; "I'd give my right arm for that pizza"
- Hyperbole
- to create a image; not only mental but sensation and emotion as well
- Image
- (middle rhyme) a rhyme occuring within a line
- Internal rhyme
- inverson of a normal grammatical word order; single to pair of words moved
- Inversion
- figure of speech in form of an expression
- Irony
- characterized by octave with a rhyme scheme of abbaabba and a sestet rhyming variously bu usually cdecde or cdccd
- Italian sonnet
- figure of speech suggesting a correspondance between the two
- Metaphor
- elaborate metaphor
- Metaphysical conceit
- measure of rythmic quatity
- Meter
- formation/use of words which imitate sounds; whispering, clang
- Onomatopoeia
- speaker or voice of a literary work who is doing the talking
- Persona
- metaphor where human characteristics are used for animals, things; car was "happy" to be washed
- Personafication
- most common stanzaic form; peom/unit/stanza of 4 lines with rhyme scheme of abab
- Quatrain
- a stanza, line, part of a line that is repeated throughout poem
- Refrain
- pattern established by the arrangement of rhymes
- Rhyme scheme
- lines grouped in 3 quatrains with 6 alternating rhymes
- Shakespearean sonnet
- comparing using like or as
- Simile
- 14 lines of 5 foot iambic verse
- sonnet
- an image that represents something else; flag=country
- Symbol
- word is contracted by removing one or more letters or syllables; ne'er - never
- syncope
- the way in which words and phrases are arranged to form grammatical structure
- Syntax
- unit/group or 3 lines of verse which are rhymed together or has a rhyme scheme with adjoining tercet
- tercet
- the attitude of the subject
- Tone
- underemphasis in order to acheive greater effect
- Understatement
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