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| 7706923322 | Pattern imagery | a group of related images developed throughout a work | 0 | |
| 7763367608 | Synesthesia | the mixing of forms of imagery -ex: "He smelled the blue fumes of her scent." | 1 | |
| 7763370763 | Static imagery | freezes the moment to give it timeless quality of painting or sculpture | 2 | |
| 7706928741 | Imagism | movement in modern poetry influenced by haiku, stressing terseness and concrete imagery. Imagists: a group of 20th century poets, who created new rhythms and meters -ex of imagists: Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, and Amy Powell | 3 | |
| 7706981176 | Imperfect rhyme | rhyme where consonants in 2 words are the same but intervening vowels are different -ex: "pick/pack," "lads/lids" | 4 | |
| 7707013672 | In media res | Latin phrase describing Homer's "Iliad" that begin in the middle of the action to catch a reader's interest | 5 | |
| 7707024363 | Informal diction | idiomatic and relaxed -ex: John Updike's "A&P" | 6 | |
| 7707032128 | Internal rhyme | rhyme consisting of rhyming words found within a line of poetry | 7 | |
| 7707043732 | Types of Irony | Dramatic/tragic: irony that depends on the audience's knowing something the protagonist has not yet realized Verbal: when what is said is different from what is meant Situational: when something happens that is unexpected | 8 | |
| 7763031744 | Jargon | specialized language associated with a particular trade or profession | 9 | |
| 7763036151 | Kinetic imagery | imagery that attempts to show motion or change -ex: William Carlos William's "The Great Figure" | 10 | |
| 7763046295 | Literary canon | group of literary works generally acknowledged to be the best and most significant; tends to be conservative and reflects ideological positions that aren't universally accepted | 11 | |
| 7763064601 | Literary convention | something whose meaning is so widely understood within a society that authors can expect their audiences to accept and comprehend it unquestioningly -ex:division of plays into acts with intermissions, or stepmothers in fairy tales are likely to be wicked | 12 | |
| 7763086337 | Literary criticism | descriptions, analyses, interpretations, or evaluations of works of literature by experts in the field | 13 | |
| 7763092661 | Literary symbol | person, object, action, or idea whose meaning transcends its literal sense in a complex way -ex: rose in Blake's "The Sick Rose" or a swastika | 14 | |
| 7763118377 | Low comedy | comedy with little or no intellectual appeal; coined by George Meredith -ex: used as comedic relief in "Macbeth" | 15 | |
| 7763140683 | Lyric | form of poetry, usually brief and intense, that expresses a poet's subjective response to the world; set to music in classical times -ex: Keats often wrote these about love, death, and nature | 16 | |
| 7763150418 | Masculine rhyme | rhyme where single syllables correspond; also called rising rhyme | 17 | |
| 7763152467 | Meditation | lyric poem that focuses on a physical object, using this object as a vehicle for considering larger issues -ex: Keats's "Ode on a Grecian Urn" | 18 | |
| 7763168765 | Melodrama | sensational play that appeals shamelessly to the emotions, contains elements of tragedy but ends happily, and often relies on set plots and stock characters | 19 | |
| 7763183133 | Metaphor | ex: "My love's a fortress," or "I Stand Here Ironing" by Tillie Olsen | 20 | |
| 7763191718 | Meter | regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables, each repeated unit of which is called a foot; most common is iambic pentameter | 21 | |
| 7763199688 | Anapest | metric foot of 2 unstressed syllables followed by 1 stressed | 22 | |
| 7763205684 | Dactyl | metric foot of 1 stressed syllable followed by 2 unstressed | 23 | |
| 7763213215 | Iamb | metric foot of 1 unstressed syllable followed by 1 stressed | 24 | |
| 7763219507 | Trochee | metric foot of 1 stressed syllable followed by 1 unstressed | 25 | |
| 7763224504 | Spondee | metric foot of 2 stressed syllables | 26 | |
| 7763227940 | Pyrrhic | metric foot of 2 unstressed syllables | 27 | |
| 7763237471 | Metonymy | figure of speech in which the term for one thing can be applied to another with which it is closely associated -ex: saying, "defend the flag" to mean "defend the nation" | 28 | |
| 7763247607 | Mimesis | Aristotle's term for the purpose of literature, which he felt was imitation of life; literature represents the essence of life and we are affected by it because we recognize elements of our own experiences | 29 | |
| 7763268797 | Monologue | extended speech by one character | 30 | |
| 7763278571 | Mood | atmosphere created by the elements of a literary work | 31 | |
| 7763284084 | Morality play | medieval Christian allegory | 32 | |
| 7763287388 | Motivation | reasons behind a character's behavior that make us accept or believe that character | 33 | |
| 7763292675 | Mystery play | medieval play depicting biblical scenes | 34 | |
| 7763297547 | Myth | anonymous story reflecting the religious and social values of a culture or explaining natural phenomena, often involving gods and heroes | 35 | |
| 7763309177 | Narrative | the "storytelling" of a piece of fiction; the forward-moving recounting of an episode and description | 36 |
