ENG 9 FINAL
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- blank verse
- verse without rhyme, usually in iambic pentameter
- internal rhyme
- rhyming words in a line of a verse. "She wears a big wig."
- subordinator
- although, even though, because, since, such that, after, anywhere...
- paradox
- a statement that is contradictory but true. "Sometimes less is more."
- dramatic irony
- the contrast between what a character knows and what readers (or the audience) know
- external conflict
- when character is pitted against an outside force, such as another character or trying of events
- free verse
- verse without regular meter or rhyme
- prose
- the ordinary form of written language, opposite of poetry, not poetry, drama, or song, no meter or rhyme
- oxymoron
- two-word contradictory phrase. "loving hate" "deafening silence"
- iambic
- second syllable is accented
- adjective clause
- clause that describes something
- iambic pentameter
- a line that is 10 syllables long.
- epithet
- a brief description that adds to someone's name
- imagery
- words or phrases that appeal to one or more of our five senses (sight, hearing, touch, smell, taste)
- gustatory imagery
- appeals to taste
- alliteration
- repetition of beginning sounds in two or more neighboring words
- participial phrase
- ending in -ing, or -ed. act as adjectives
- trochaic rhythm
- odd number of syllables in a line, accent on odd syllables
- palindrome
- a word that reads the same backwards
- assonance
- same or similar vowel sounds
- antagonist
- a person, idea, force, or circumstances that oppose the protagonist
- quatrain
- in verse, a stanza of 4 lines
- iambic tetrameter
- line of a verse with 4 feet (8 syllables)
- soliloquy
- a speech made by a play's character to himself or herself when alone
- dependent clause
- clause that can stand on its own
- olfactory imagery
- appeals to smell
- visual imagery
- appeals to sight
- internal conflict
- when a struggle occuring within a character,such as when a character has doubts about what action to take
- allusion
- a reference in writing or speech to some piece of knowledge (often a literary work)
- auditory imagery
- appeals to hearing
- pentameter
- 5 feet (10 syllables)
- tactile imagery
- appeals to touch
- clause
- distinct part of a sentence with its own verb
- protagonist
- main character in literary work
- sonnet
- lyric poem of 14 lines, with 10 syllables per line