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- rhetoric
- the art of using language effectively and persuasively; 3 types
- verbal irony
- characters mean the exact opposite of what they say; sarcasm
- proposer/projector
- the narrator of a Modest Proposal
- monometer
- a meter that has one foot per line.
- english sonnet
- the sonnet: 14 lines, iambic pentameter ABAB CDCD EFEF GG (3 quatrains and a rhyming couplet); also the Shakespearean sonnet; began in England
- terset
- 3 lines
- couplet
- 2 lines with end rhyme
- rhyme
- repitition of the same or similar sounds; easy to remember
- shakespearean sonnet
- the sonnet: 14 lines, iambic pentameter ABAB CDCD EFEF GG (3 quatrains and a rhyming couplet); also the english sonnet; began in England
- irony
- implied discrepancy between what is said and what is meant
- dramatic irony
- This technique occurs in a play when the audience knows facts that the characters in the play are ignorant of.
- author
- a person who writes books, stories, or plays
- satire
- A type of writing that ridicules the shortcomings of people or institutions in an attemmpt to bring about a change.
- quatrain
- 4 lines ABAB
- trochee
- A stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable; eg topsy /U
- turn
- volte; direction of poem/argument changes
- meter
- A pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry; tempo and line (pattern of sounds)
- sestet
- 6 lines
- narratology
- study of narratives
- logos
- In rhetorical theory, the quality that appeals to reason and logic
- dactyl
- a metrical unit with stressed-unstressed-unstressed syllables; eg merrily /UU
- focalized object
- object focused on by the focalizer
- iamb
- a metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables; eg destroy U/
- slant rhyme
- rhyme in which the vowel sounds are nearly, but not exactly the same (i.e. the words "stress" and "kiss"); sometimes called half-rhyme, near rhyme, or partial rhyme
- focalizer
- character through whose eyes we see the world; narrator speaks, focalizer sees
- manifesto
- A public declaration, making announcement, explanation or defense of intentions, or motives.
- blank verse
- iambic pentameter without a rhyme scheme; eg Shakespearean sonnet
- narrator
- The voice of the person telling the story, not to be confused with the author's voice
- free verse
- unrhymed verse without a consistent metrical pattern
- octet
- 8 lines
- autobiography
- a story about the writer's own life told by the writer.
- end rhyme
- Same sounds occuring at the end of lines; strong
- petrarchan conceit
- ornate, elaborate; extended metaphor comparing unlike things, often exaggerated to express unrequited love
- assonance
- the repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words
- closed verse
- the sonnet: 14 lines, iambic pentameter ABAB CDCD EFEF GG (3 quatrains and a rhyming couplet)
- theme
- The central idea or ideas, underlying or explicit, of a literary work, as distinguished from its subject and plot.
- parody
- A form of literature intended to achieve a comic effect by mocking a particular literary work or its style
- perfect rhyme
- Rhymes involving sound that are exactly the same (ex: love, dove)
- spondee
- a metrical unit with stressed-stressed syllables; eg hum drum //
- poetry
- literature in metrical form; has the illusion of freedom but is restrained by meter and is a game of form and content
- novel
- Covering a wide range of prose materialswhich have two common characteristics: they are fictional and lengthy
- pyrrhic
- a metrical unit with unstressed-unstressed syllables; eg runn/ing or /walking (ing or are unstressed) UU
- italian sonnet
- also the petrarchan sonnet; began in Italy; ABBAABBA CDECDE (octet and sestet); statement with counterstatement
- ethos
- In rhetorical theory, the appeal of speakers or writers to their own credibility and character is called this
- consonance
- the repetition of consonants (or consonant patterns) especially at the ends of words
- sonnet
- a verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme
- internal rhyme
- same sounds occuring within lines; not as strong as the end rhyme
- feet
- the number of units of any meter/line of poetry
- anapest
- a metrical unit with unstressed-unstressed-stressed syllables; eg intervene UU/
- eye rhyme
- an imperfect rhyme (e.g., 'love' and 'move')
- pathos
- In rhetorical theory, the quality in any form of representation that rouses emotion or sympathy.
- lymmeric
- funny despite serious content