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| 211636296 | line | a sequence of words printed as a separate entity on a page | |
| 211636297 | monometer | line with one foot | |
| 211636298 | dimeter | line with two feet | |
| 211636299 | trimeter | line with three feet | |
| 211636300 | tetrameter | line with four feet | |
| 211636301 | pentameter | line with five feet | |
| 211636302 | hexameter | line with six feet | |
| 211636303 | heptameter | line with seven feet | |
| 211636304 | octameter | line with eight feet | |
| 211636305 | meter | occurs when rhythmic patterns of stresses recur in a poem | |
| 211636306 | foot | metrical unit by which a line is measured | |
| 211636307 | iamb | one unstressed/one stressed | |
| 211636308 | trochee | one stressed/one unstressed | |
| 211636309 | anapest | two unstressed/one stressed | |
| 211636310 | dactyl | one stressed/two unstressed | |
| 211636311 | spondee | two stressed | |
| 211636312 | couplet | two consecutive lines of poetry and have the same meter | |
| 211636313 | heroic couplet | couplet written in rhymed iambic pentameter | |
| 211636314 | stanza | a grouping of lines set off by a space that usually has a set pattern of meter and rhyme | |
| 211636315 | quatrain | four line stanza | |
| 211636316 | end-stopped line | a poetic line that has a pause at the end, often marked by punctuation | |
| 211636317 | enjambment | when one line ends without a pause and continues into the next line for its meaning | |
| 211636318 | alliteration | repetition of the same consonant sound in a sequence of words, usually at the beginning of a word or a stressed syllable | |
| 211636319 | assonance | repetition of internal vowel sounds in nearby words that are not true rhymes | |
| 211636320 | consonance | near rhyme that consists of identical consonant sounds preceded by different vowel sounds | |
| 211636321 | rhyme | repetition of identical or similar concluding syllables in different words that end in the same vowel sound | |
| 211636322 | eye rhyme | words that look alike but do not rhyme at all | |
| 211636323 | rhyme scheme | describes the pattern of end rhymes | |
| 211636324 | end rhyme | the most common form of rhyme; the rhyming of the ends of lines | |
| 211636325 | internal rhyme | at least one rhymed word is found within the line of poetry | |
| 211636326 | masculine rhyme | describes the rhyming of single-syllable words, or in a multisyllablic word when the same sound occurs in the final stressed syllable | |
| 211636327 | feminine rhyme | consists of a rhymed syllable followed by one or more identical unstressed syllables | |
| 211636328 | exact rhyme | shares the same stressed vowel sounds as well as sharing sounds that follow the vowel | |
| 211636329 | near rhyme | sounds are almost but not exactly alike | |
| 211636330 | overstatement | an extreme exaggeration used for effect | |
| 211636331 | symbol | person, object, image, word, or event that evokes a range of additional meanings beyond and usually more abstract than its literal significance | |
| 211636332 | pun | play on words | |
| 211636333 | understatement | saying less than what is meant for effect | |
| 211636334 | paradox | an apparent contradiction, which is nevertheless somewhat true | |
| 211636335 | onomatopoeia | words whose sound suggests their meaning | |
| 211636336 | oxymoron | the setting together of two words of opposite meaning for effect | |
| 211636337 | metaphor | a figure of speech that makes a comparison between seemingly dissimilar objects without using like or as | |
| 211636338 | implied metaphor | metaphor in which the terms being compared are not specifically named or explained | |
| 211636339 | extended metaphor | a sustained comparison in which parts or all of the poem consists of a series of related metaphors | |
| 211636340 | controlling metaphor | metaphor that runs through an entire poem and determine the form or nature of the poem | |
| 211636341 | universal symbol | symbol that carries the same meaning no matter the culture | |
| 211636342 | literary symbol | symbol which is an object that represents another object only within the context of the poem | |
| 211636343 | simile | comparison using like or as | |
| 211636344 | conventional symbols | universally recognized images (cross, Star of David, swastika) | |
| 211636345 | tone | the author's implicit attitude toward the reader or the people, places, and events in a work as revealed by the elements of the author's style | |
| 211636346 | theme | central idea or message of a poem; provides a unifying point around which the plot, characters, setting, point of view, symbols and other elements of a work are organized | |
| 211636347 | diction | a poet's choice of words, phrases, sentence structures, and figurative language, which combine to help create meaning | |
| 211636348 | formal diction | dignified, impersonal, and elevated use of language; follows the rule of syntax exactly and is often characterized by complex terms | |
| 211636349 | middle diction | maintains correct language usage, but is less elevated than formal diction; it reflects the way most educated people speak | |
| 211636350 | informal diction | plain language of everyday use; often uses idiomatic expressions, slang, contradiction, and common words; colloquial speech | |
| 211636351 | poetic diction | the way poets sometimes employ and elevated diction that deviates significantly from the common speech and writing of their time, choosing words for their supposedly inherent poetic qualities | |
| 211636352 | ballad | lyric poem that tells a story in quatrains; often the first and third lines are in iambic tetrameter and the second and forth lines, which rhyme are iambic trimeter | |
| 211636353 | dramatic monologue | lyric poem that sounds like speech from a play; the speaker is talking to someone; usually ironic and usually tell stories | |
| 211636354 | elegy | melancholic lyric poem meditating on something, usually death | |
| 211636355 | Petrarchan sonnet | fourteen lines divided into octet, which presents a conflict, and sestet, which resolves the conflict; written in iambic pentameter | |
| 211636356 | ABBA ABBA CDECDE or CDCDCD or CDCCDC | Petrarchan sonnet rhyme scheme | |
| 211636357 | Shakespearean sonnet | usually about love and is divided into 3 quatrains and a heroic couplet; written in iambic pentameter | |
| 211636358 | ABAB CDCD EFEF GG | Shakespearean sonnet rhyme scheme | |
| 211636359 | sestina | peom of six sestets and a concluding tercet; the end words of each line in the first stanze are used as the end words (in varying order) in the following five stanzas; the concluding tercet uses the end words in the middle and at the end of each line | |
| 288457471 | prose | written or spoken language in its ordinary form, without metrical structure | |
| 288457472 | poetry | literary work in which special intensity is given to the expression of feelings and ideas use by the use of distinctive style and rhythm | |
| 288457473 | sestet | six line stanza | |
| 288457474 | octave | 8 line stanza | |
| 288457475 | tercet | 3 line stanza | |
| 288457476 | blank verse | verse written without rhyme | |
| 288457477 | iambic pentameter | a common meter in poetry consisting of an unrhymed line with five feet, each foot containing an unaccented syllable and an accented syllable | |
| 288457478 | euphony | "good sound", refers to language that is smooth and musically pleasant to the ear (sounds soft like h, s, and vowels) | |
| 288457479 | cacophony | dissonant language that is difficult to pronounce (i.e. player piano, hard consonants like b, k, d, f, n) | |
| 288457480 | metonymy | "change of name", one thing that is to another with which it is closely related because of current relation in common experience (the crown=king) | |
| 288457481 | personification | The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman | |
| 288457482 | synecdoche | "taking together", a part of something is used to signify the whole (100 sails= 100ships, 10 hands=5 workers) | |
| 288457483 | apostrophe | direct address to an absent or non-human entity | |
| 288457484 | parallelism | use of successive verbal constructions in poetry or prose that correspond in grammatical structure, sound, meter, meaning, etc | |
| 288457485 | antithesis | A person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone or something else | |
| 288457487 | archetype | A very typical example of a certain person or thing | |
| 288457488 | drama | evolved from ancient religious festivals in honor of the Greek god Dionysus | |
| 288457489 | tragedy | Concerns better than average people like heroes and kings who suffer a transition from good fortune to bad fortune (usually unbelievable plot) | |
| 288457490 | comedy | Concerns average or below average people who enjoy a transition from bad fortune to good fortune (but not too good) (usually believable plot) | |
| 288457491 | satyr | compared to modern day burlesque, overly sexual, involved alcohol/pranks, phallic props (things resembling genitalia), not nearly as popular as tragedy or comedy | |
| 288457492 | catharsis | the process of releasing, and thereby providing relief from, strong or repressed emotions | |
| 288457493 | terror | readers/viewers imagine themselves in the hero's shoes (term by Aristotle) | |
| 288457494 | chorus | represented the collective community, but not necessarily the poet's thoughts, one leader who would step out and speak with the protagonist | |
| 288457495 | tragic hero | larger than life traits, fate of the hero to be more important than audience, member's fates, pity for the tragic hero as he is demoted in his life station, imperfect as any other human being, hero still must earn respect of audience, able to identify with the flaws of the hero, should not be a saint/ too good to make a mistake, audience can identify with fallibility of the hero | |
| 288457496 | hubris | Excessive pride or self-confidence | |
| 288457497 | dramatic irony | character lacking the knowledge that the audience has, or does not understand the importance of his/her own words and actions |
