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| 42772121 | omniscient character | knows everything about the story including all characters, action, places, and events. Because of this all-knowing and all-seeing, | |
| 42772122 | series of flashbacks | a transition (in literary or theatrical works or films) to an earlier event or scene | |
| 42772123 | interior monologue | A passage of writing presenting a character's inner thoughts and emotions in a direct, sometimes disjointed or fragmentary. | |
| 42772124 | a mixed metaphor | are different metaphors occurring in the same utterance , especially the same sentence, that are used to express the same concept. | |
| 42772125 | haiku | A Japanese lyric verse form having three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables | |
| 42772126 | a sestina | is a poem consisting of six six-line stanzas and a three-line envoy. | |
| 42772128 | an ode | A lyric poem of some length, usually of a serious or meditative nature and having an elevated style and formal stanzaic structure. | |
| 42772132 | hyperbole | A boldly exaggerated statement that adds emphasis without in-tending to be literally true, as in the statement "He ate everything in the house." | |
| 42772133 | satire | The literary art of ridiculing a folly or vice in order to expose or correct it. The object of satire is usually some human frailty | |
| 42772134 | masculine rhyme | is a rhyme on a single stressed syllable at the end of a line of poetry | |
| 42772135 | free verse | free verse refers to poems characterized by their nonconformity to established patterns of meter, rhyme, and stanza. Usually doesn't rhyme. | |
| 42772136 | mock epic | a long narrative poem that lightly parodies or mimics the conventions of classical epic. Whitman's elaborate "invocation" of a muse in "Song of the Exposition" is a mock-epic device. | |
| 42772137 | forced rhyme | because it does exactly that; forces the rhyme where it should not otherwise be. | |
| 42772138 | ballad stanza | A four-line stanza, known as a quatrain, consisting of alternating eight- and six-syllable lines. | |
| 42772139 | rhymed couplets | is a pair of lines of verse. It usually consists of two lines that rhyme and have the same meter. | |
| 42772140 | feminine rhyme | is a rhyme that matches two or more syllables, usually at the end of respective lines. | |
| 42772391 | alliteration | repetition at close intervals of initial consonant words | |
| 42772392 | assonance | repetition at close intervals of vowel sounds | |
| 42772393 | consonance | repetition at close intervals of final consonant sounds | |
| 42772394 | cacophony | harsh, non-melodic, unpleasant sounding arrangement of words | |
| 42772395 | euphony | pleasant, easy to articulate words | |
| 42772396 | onomatopoeia | use of words which mimic their meaning in sound | |
| 42772397 | sibilance | hissing sounds represented by s, z, sh | |
| 42772398 | allegory | characters are symbols, has a moral | |
| 42772399 | apostrophe | someone absent, dead, or imagianary, or an abstraction, is being addressed as if it could reply | |
| 42772400 | didactic poetry | poetry with the primary purpose of teaching or preaching | |
| 42772401 | dramatic monologue | character "speaks" through the poem; a character study | |
| 42772402 | elegy | poem which expresses sorow over a death of someone for whom the poet cared, or on another solemn theme | |
| 42772403 | sonnet | 14 line poem, fixed rhyme scheme, fixed meter (usually 10 syllables per line) | |
| 42772404 | connotation | what a word suggests beyond its surface definition | |
| 42772405 | denotation | basic definition or dictionary meaning of a word | |
| 42772406 | diction | choice of words for effect | |
| 42772407 | syntax | word order or grammatical appropriateness | |
| 42772408 | blank verse | unrhymed iambic pentameter | |
| 42772409 | caesura | a natural pause in the middle of a line, sometimes coinciding with punctuation | |
| 42772410 | couplet | two successive lines which rhyme, usually at the end of a work | |
| 42772411 | enjambment | describes a line of poetry in which the sense and grammatical construction continues on to the next line | |
| 42772412 | feminine rhyme | latter two syllables of first word rhyme with latter two syllables of second word (ceiling appealing) | |
| 42772413 | free verse | no fixed meter or rhyme | |
| 42772414 | iambic pentameter | 70% of verse is written this way; ten syllables per line, following an order of unaccented-accented syllables | |
| 42772415 | internal rhyme | repetition of sounds within a line (but not at the end of the line) | |
| 42772416 | masculine rhyme | final syllable of first word rhymes with final syllable of second word (scald recalled) | |
| 42772417 | meter | regularized rhythm of stressed and unstressed syllables; accents occur at approx. equal intervals of time | |
| 42772418 | refrain | repeated word, phrase, line, or group of lines in a pattern | |
| 42772419 | rhyme | repetition of end sounds | |
| 42772420 | rhythm | wave-like recurrence of sound | |
| 42772421 | stanza | group of lines | |
| 42772422 | structure | internal organization of a poem's content | |
| 42772423 | allusion | a reference to something in literature of history | |
| 42772424 | anaphora | repetition of the same word or words at the start of two or more lines | |
| 42772425 | archetype | a character or personality type found in every society | |
| 42772426 | conceit | an extended witty, paradoxical, or startling metaphor | |
| 42772427 | hyperbole | exaggeration, overstatement | |
| 42772428 | imagery | representation through language of a sensory experience | |
| 42772429 | irony | incongruity or discrepancy between the implied and expected; verbal, dramatic, situational | |
| 42772430 | metaphor | implied or direct comparison | |
| 42772431 | metonymy | symbolism; one thing is used as a substitute for another with which it is closely identified (the White House) | |
| 42772432 | mood | the atmosphere suggested by the structure and style of the poem | |
| 42772433 | oxymoron | compact paradoxl two successive words contradict each other | |
| 42772434 | pace | tempo or rate implied by the structure and style of the poem | |
| 42772435 | paradox | statement or situation containing seemingly contradictory elements | |
| 42772436 | parallelism | presents coordinating ideas in a coordinating manner | |
| 42772437 | persona | assumed speaker of the poem; typically used synonymously with 'speaker' | |
| 42772438 | personification | giving a non-human the characteristics of a human | |
| 42772439 | simile | comparison using 'like' or 'as' | |
| 42772440 | style | an author's combined use of these ideas into a recurring pattern of usage | |
| 42772441 | symbolism | something (object, person, situation, etc.) means more than what it is | |
| 42772442 | synecdoche | symbolism; the part signifies the whole, or the whole the part (all hands on board) | |
| 42772443 | theme | central idea | |
| 42772444 | tone | writer's attitude toward the audience or subject, implied or related directly | |
| 42772445 | understatement | saying less than one means, for effect | |
| 148077997 | mise en abyme | Derrida. Placed in the abyss. Think of standing between two mirrors. It's a type of frame story, in which the core narrative can be used to illuminate some aspect of the framing story. The term is used in deconstruction and deconstructive literary criticism as a paradigm of the intertextual nature of language—that is, of the way language never quite reaches the foundation of reality because it refers in a frame-within-a-frame way to other language, which refers to other language, etc. |
