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| a poem written on the subject of poetic art; ex- archibald macleish's ars poetica | ||
| a speech made by an actor to the audience as though momentarily stepping outside the action on stage | ||
| repeated use of internal vowel sounds; ex- e.e. cummings "on a proud round cloud" | ||
| a stylistic scheme in which conjunctions are deliberately omitted from a series of related words, phrases or clause; ex- "I came, I saw, I conquered" | ||
| the emotional tone or background that surrounds a scene | ||
| a love song or poem greeting the dawn; ex- John Donne's "busie old foole, unruly sun" | ||
| a long narrative poem in regular meter and rhyme; ex- Coleridge's The Ancient Mariner | ||
| a writing that strains for grandeur it can't support; seems too far fetched for reality; ex- in Hamlet, when Laertes tells men to bury him in ground with Ophelia | ||
| a novel of self-development or personal formation; ex- Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn | ||
| unrhymed iambic pentameter; ex- Tennyson's "made weak/ by time/ and fate/ but strong/ in will" | ||
| pretentious, exaggeratedly learned language; victorian writers were masters of this; verbose, setences swollen with subordinate clauses | ||
| broad parody that takes on a specific style and makes fun of it; ex- George Strong's "What Hiawatatha Probably did" makes fun of Longfellow's poem Hiawatha | ||
| using deliberately harsh, awkward sounds; ex- "o tite tute tati tibi tanta" | ||
| the beat or rhythm of poetry; ex- "living (pause)/ the days go by (pause)/ watching (pause)" | ||
| a pause in a line of poetry; ex- "England- how I long for thee" | ||
| third person narrator who describes what would be visible to a camera; objective; ex- Hemingway's Hills Like White Elephants | ||
| a section division in a long work of poetry; Dante's Divine Comedy- 100 cantos | ||
| a portrait that exaggerates a facet of personality; ex- cartoons on editorial page of newspapers | ||
| the enjoyment of the pleasures of the moment without concern for the future | ||
| a complete enumeration of items, arranged systematically, with descriptive details | ||
| cleansing of emotion | ||
| 7 lines, rhyme of ababbcc; also called rime royal; ex- four of the Canterbury Tales | ||
| the group of citizens that stands outside the main action on stage and comments on it; ex- Sophocles' Oedipus Rex | ||
| a type of rhetoric in which second part is syntactically balanced against the first; ex- Point of Grace's "There's a bridge to cross the great divide/ There's a cross to bridge the great divide" | ||
| the point of highest tension; major turning point in a play | ||
| a new word, usually invented on the spot | ||
| a word or phrase used in everyday conversational English; ex- "what's up" | ||
| an extended metaphor, developed and expanded upon over several lines; ex- Shakespeare's "All the world's a stage/ And all the men and women merely players" | ||
| a type of visual poetry; poem wherein shape of words and lines convey the meaning; ex- Gorges' Her Face, Her Tongue, Her Wytt | ||
| the association with a word; the word suggests/implies meaning beyond the literal; ex- red rose connotes passion and love | ||
| repetition of consonant sounds within words; ex- the letter d and s in "slow dusk a drawing down on blinds" | ||
| a poem in which lines follow each other without stanza breaks; ex- Robert Frost's Mending Wall | ||
| a pair of lines ending in rhyme; ex- Shel Silverstein's "I have the measles and the mumps/ a gash, a rash, and purple bumps" | ||
| a metrical measurement of one accented syllable and two unaccented; ex- Emily Dickinson's "GIBBering, / JABBering" | ||
| the attitude one should display according to his social/econ status | ||
| a word's literal meaning; ex- red rose denotes a red flower with a green stem | ||
| events that follow the climax; conclusion | ||
| literally "god out of a machine"; an artificial or improbable character, device, or event introduced suddenly in a work of fiction or drama to resolve a situation or untangle a plot; ex- an angel suddenly appearing to solve problems | ||
| repetition of words before and after syntactical break; ex- "We will do it, I tell you, we will do it." |
