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| A brief, cleverly worded statement that makes a wise observation about life. | ||
| a pause or break within a line of poetry | ||
| the writer specifically states what a character is like | ||
| the writer reveals information about a character and his personality through that character's thought, words, and actions, appearance, and effect on other characters | ||
| the stereotyped character in which he is immediately known from typical characters in history | ||
| a prototype or original model of a character, like Merlin for magicians (then Gandalf, then Dumbledore) | ||
| a statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is structurally reversed ("Susan walked in, and out rushed Mary.") | ||
| A type of form or structure in poetry characterized by regularity and consistency in such elements as rhyme, line length, and metrical pattern. | ||
| repetition of consonant sounds | ||
| Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme | ||
| a mournful poem, esp. one lamenting the dead | ||
| A term that describes a line of poetry that ends with a natural pause indicated by a mark of punctuation. | ||
| the continuation of meaning, without pause or break, from one line of poetry to the next, usually due to a lack of punctuation | ||
| short, witty saying or poem | ||
| a short passage added at the end of a literary work | ||
| a genre of literature characterized by gloom, violence, mystery, the bizarre, and the grotesque | ||
| a saying that widely accepted on its own merits; see Aphorism | ||
| stressed, unstressed | ||
| the act of giving an account describing incidents or a course of events | ||
| the art of public speaking | ||
| the problems that come up during a story as characters try to resolve the conflict | ||
| the series of conflicts or struggles that build a story toward a climax. | ||
| the decisive moment in a novel or play; the point of no return; the point to which the rising action builds | ||
| events after the climax, leading to the resolution | ||
| a regularly repeated line or group of lines in a poem or song | ||
| a question asked for an effect, not actually requiring an answer | ||
| the repetition of sounds at the ends of words | ||
| rhyme ending on the final stressed syllable | ||
| latter two syllables of first word rhyme with latter two syllables of second word (ceiling appealing) | ||
| three syllable rhyme | ||
| Rhyme that occurs within a line, rather than at the end | ||
| Rhyme that occurs at the end of two or more lines of poetry | ||
| These are all general terms referring to rhymes that are close but not exact: lap/shape, glorious/nefarious. | ||
| a form of rhyme that depends on appearance rather than sound (moose, choose) | ||
| Refers to the pattern of end rime | ||
| harsh, cutting language or tone intended to ridicule | ||
| form of literature in which irony, sarcasm, and ridicule are employed to attack human vice and folly | ||
| The process of measuring the stresses in a line of verse in order to determine the metrical pattern of the line. | ||
| The time and place of a story | ||
| repetition of s and soft c sounds | ||
| a figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with like, as, or than) | ||
| in drama, a character speaks alone on stage to allow his/her thoughts and ideas to be conveyed to the audience | ||
| 14 line lyric poem, fixed rhyme scheme, fixed meter (usually 10 syllables per line) | ||
| a sonnet consisting three quatrains and a concluding couplet in iambic pentameter | ||
| a sonnet consisting three quatrains and a concluding couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme pattern abab cdcd efef gg | ||
| a sonnet consisting of three quatrains and a concluding couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme pattern abab bcbc cdcd ee | ||
| a sonnet consisting of an octave with the rhyme pattern abbaabba, followed by a sestet with the rhyme pattern cdecde or cdcdcd | ||
| a stanza consisting of two successive lines of verse, usually rhymed | ||
| a three line stanza | ||
| a four line stanza | ||
| a five line a stanza | ||
| a six line stanza | ||
| an eight line stanza | ||
| someone who is seemingly indifferent to emotions | ||
| Uncertainty or anxiety the reader feels about what is going to happen next in a story | ||
| an object that is used to represent something else (usually a larger, philosophical and more important idea) | ||
| using a part of something to represent the whole thing | ||
| describing one kind of sensation in terms of another ("a loud color", "a sweet sound") | ||
| the attitude a speaker takes toward a given subject | ||
| the deliberate representation of something as lesser in magnitude than it actually is; a deliberate under-emphasis | ||
| the quality of appearing to be true, real, likely, or probable |
