Genre-Meter GCA
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| 83361343 | Genre | Refers to a type of literature specific to its style, form, or content. Examples include mystery novels, epic poems, and tragic plays | |
| 83361344 | Gothic, Gothic Novel | Gothic is the sensibility derived from gothic novels | |
| 83361345 | Hubris | The excessive pride or ambition that leads to the main character's downfall | |
| 83361346 | Hyperbole | Exaggeration or overstatement of the truth | |
| 83361347 | In media res | Latin for "in the midst of things." | |
| 83361348 | Interior Monologue | A term from novels and poetry, not dramatic literature. It refers to writing that records the mental talking that goes on inside a character's head | |
| 83361349 | Lambic pentameter | Since roughly 90 percent of all verse is written in iambic pentameter, it is helpful to carefully define it | |
| 83361350 | Inversion | Switching the customary order of elements in a sentence or phrase. When done badly it can give a stilted, artificial, look-at-me-I'm-poetry feel to the verse, but poets do it all the time | |
| 83361351 | Irony | the writer uses a word or phrase to mean the opposite of its literal or normal meaning. There are three forms of irony commonly used: dramatic irony, verbal irony, and situational irony | |
| 83361352 | Lament | A poem of sadness or grief or death of a loved one or over some other intense loss | |
| 83361353 | Lampoon | A satire | |
| 83361354 | Lyric | A type of poetry that explores the poet's personal interpretation of and feelings about the world (or the part that his poem is about). When the word lyric is used to describe a tone it refers to a sweet, emotional melodiousness | |
| 83361355 | Melodrama | A form of cheesy theater in which the hero is very, very good, the villain mean and rotten, and the heroine o-so-pure | |
| 83361356 | Metaphor | A comparison of two unlike things in which no word of comparison (like or as) is used | |
| 83361357 | Meter | The patterned repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry |
