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| 5260571173 | allegory | a figure of speech in which abstract ideas and principles are described in terms of characters, figures and events. Typically in narrative, it has at least two levels of meaning: surface meaning and a moral/political/philosophical/religious meaning. In Pilgrim's Progress, a guy named "Christian" travels through a city called "Sin" and encounters places such as "Vanity Fair" and the "Slough of Despair." | 0 | |
| 5260571174 | allusion | reference to something else. Generally, when we consider something an _________ , we mean to an event in history or something else. For instance, the tithle of Things Fall Apart alludes to Yeats's poem "The Second Coming." | 1 | |
| 5260573368 | alliteration | when words begin with the same sounds. Ex. "The west wind wends its way over the plains. | 2 | |
| 5260573369 | anaphora | repetition of the same word or group of words at the beginning of successive clauses | 3 | |
| 5260573370 | apostrophe | form of personification in which the absent or dead are spoken to as if present and the inanimate, as if animate. | 4 | |
| 5260575560 | assonance | the repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds, usually in stressed syllables, followed by different consonant sounds in proximate words. Assonance is different from perfect rhyme in that rhyming words also repeat the final consonant. For instance, fate and cave show _________ while fate and late show perfect rhyme ex:go and mow the lawn | 5 | |
| 5260575561 | asyndeton | deliberate omission of conjunctions in a series of related clauses: "I came, I saw, I conquered." | 6 | |
| 5260578234 | bildungsroman | a novel that recounts the development of an individual from childhood or adolescence to maturity | 7 | |
| 5260578235 | blank verse | broadly defined, any unrhymed verse but usually referring to unrhymed iambic pentameter. | 8 | |
| 5260578236 | cacophony | harsh, unpleasant sounding | 9 | |
| 5260580784 | caesura | (in Greek and Latin verse) a break between words within a metrical foot. (in modern verse) a pause near the middle of a line. any interruption or break. | 10 | |
| 5260580785 | catharsis | emotional effect a tragic drama has on its audience. From Aristotle, it is Greek for "purgation" or "purification | 11 | |
| 5260580786 | chiasmus | arrangement of ideas in the second clause is a reversal of ideas of the first. "Ask not what your country can do for you..." | 12 | |
| 5260583763 | colloquial language | slang | 13 | |
| 5260583764 | conceit | a figure of speech involving an elaborate and often surprising comparison between two apparently highly dissimilar things, often in the form of an extended metaphor. | 14 | |
| 5260583765 | connotation | denotation is a word's literal meaning;__________ is the association(s) evoked by a word beyond its denotation. | 15 | |
| 5260583766 | consonance | when words have the same consonant sounds within (math/breath; word/toward; made/wood) | 16 | |
| 5260589814 | couplet | two consecutive rhyming lines of poetry | 17 | |
| 5260589815 | denotation | the literal or primary meaning of a word, in contrast to the feelings or ideas that the word suggests. | 18 | |
| 5260592281 | denouncement | From the French for "unknotting," a term that both refers to the events following the climax of a plot and implies some ingenious resolution to the dramatic conflict and explanation of the plots mysteries or misunderstandings. | 19 | |
| 5260592282 | deus ex machine | Latin for "god from a machine," a phrase referring specifically to the intervention of a nonhuman force to resolve a seemingly unresolvable conflict in a literary work. | 20 | |
| 5260592283 | diction | word choice. Word choice can indicate many things about a poem or prose: is there repetition of important words? Is the language formal or casual? Do particular words stand out? can be formal, middle, or informal. | 21 | |
| 5260594681 | dramatic monologue | a lyric poem in which the speaker addresses a silent listener, revealing himself or herself in the context of a dramatic situation. See, for instance, Robert Browning's "My Last Duchess" or T.S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock." | 22 | |
| 5260594682 | elegy | a lyric poem written to commemorate someone who is dead. | 23 | |
| 5260594683 | end-stopped line | a line of poetry that has a definite stop at the end, generally marked by punctuation. | 24 | |
| 5260597122 | enjambment | when a line of poetry moves to the next line without a stop or pause. By the road to the contagious hospital under the surge of the blue mottled clouds driven from the northeast—a cold wind. (WC Williams) | 25 | |
| 5260597123 | epic | a long narrative poem. Generally epics tell the story of heroes or the founding of nations. Ex. The Odyssey, Beowulf. | 26 | |
| 5260597124 | epigram | a short poem with a brief, humorous, quotable ending or a witty, terse prose statement | 27 | |
| 5260600109 | epigraph | a passage printed on the title page of a literary work or at the beginning of a section of such a work. | 28 | |
| 5260600110 | euphony | pleasing sound. Ex: Seasons of mist and mellow fruitfulness... (Keats) | 29 | |
| 5260602307 | feminine rhyme | rhyme in which rhyming stressed syllables are followed by one or more unstressed syllables. For instance, "fingers" and "lingers" | 30 | |
| 5260602308 | foot | a metrical unit consisting of a certain number of stressed and unstressed syllables. Meter is composed of feet. Types: iamb: unstressed/stressed (because) trochee: stressed/unstressed (always) dactyl: stressed/unstressed/unstressed (everything) spondee: stressed/stressed (no way!) | 31 | |
| 5260607102 | free verse | poetry that does not follow the strict conventions of more traditional structures. | 32 |
