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| 3671849544 | consonance | repetition of the same consonant sound at the end of syllables or words | 0 | |
| 3671857145 | masculine rhyme | a rhyme of but a single stressed syllable, ex: disdain, complain. | 1 | |
| 3671861618 | enjambment | the running on of the thought from one line, couplet, or stanza to the next without a syntactical break (w/o a pause) | 2 | |
| 3671868912 | feminine rhyme | more than one syllable stressed followed by unstressed ex: glamorous, amorous | 3 | |
| 3671872475 | anachronism | something or someone that is not in its correct historical or chronological time, especially a thing or person that belongs to an earlier time: Ex: The sword is an anachronism in modern warfare. | 4 | |
| 3671884522 | apostrophe | a digression in the form of an address to someone not present, or to a personified object or idea ex: "O Death, where is thy sting?". | 5 | |
| 3671888322 | assonance | Also called vowel rhyme. Prosody. rhyme in which the same vowel sounds are used with different consonants in the stressed syllables of the rhyming words, Ex: penitent and reticence. | 6 | |
| 3671895265 | admonition | a warning | 7 | |
| 3671897591 | asyndeton | the omission of conjunctions, as in "He has provided the poor with jobs, with opportunity, with self-respect.". | 8 | |
| 3671903469 | anaphora | repetition of a word or words at the beginning of two or more successive verses, clauses, or sentences. | 9 | |
| 3671911086 | elegy | 1. a mournful, melancholy, or plaintive poem, especially a funeral song or a lament for the dead. 2. a poem of serious reflection 3. = complaint about love | 10 | |
| 3671913205 | didacticism | intended for instruction; instructive: | 11 | |
| 3672197667 | iambic pentameter | a common meter in poetry consisting of an unrhymed line with five feet or accents, each foot containing an unaccented syllable and an accented syllable | 12 | |
| 3672204465 | panegyric | a lofty oration or writing in praise of a person or thing; eulogy. | 13 | |
| 3672208624 | lampoon | a sharp, often virulent satire directed against an individual or institution; a work of literature, art, or the like, ridiculing severely the character or behavior of a person, society | 14 | |
| 3672215439 | slant rhyme (half rhyme, imperfect rhyme) | rhyme in which either the vowels or the consonants of stressed syllables are identical, Ex: eyes, light; years, yours. | 15 | |
| 3672221142 | polysyndeton | the use of a number of conjunctions in close succession. | 16 | |
| 3672225241 | oxymoron | a figure of speech by which a locution produces an incongruous, seemingly self-contradictory effect, as in "cruel kindness" or "to make haste slowly.". | 17 | |
| 3672226914 | chiasmus | a reversal in the order of words in two otherwise parallel phrases, as in "He went to the country, to the town went she.". | 18 | |
| 3672236910 | caesura | 1.break, especially a sense pause, usually near the middle of a verse, and marked in scansion by a double vertical line, as in know then thyself ‖ presume not God to scan. 2.a division made by the ending of a word within a foot, or sometimes at the end of a foot, especially in certain recognized places near the middle of a verse. | 19 | |
| 3672243631 | epistrophe | the repetition of a word or words at the end of two or more successive verses, clauses, or sentences, as in "I should do Brutus wrong, and Cassius wrong. ...". | 20 | |
| 3672245073 | conceit | extended metaphor | 21 | |
| 3672251846 | explicit metaphor | fully explained metaphor in great detail | 22 | |
| 3672255751 | iamb | a foot of two syllables, a short followed by a long in quantitative meter, or an unstressed followed by a stressed in accentual meter, as in Come live / with me / and be / my love. | 23 | |
| 3672258959 | aphorism | a terse saying embodying a general truth, or astute observation, as "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely" | 24 | |
| 3672262503 | homily | 2. an admonitory or moralizing discourse. 3. an inspirational saying or cliché. | 25 | |
| 3672265362 | epigram | any witty, ingenious, or pointed saying tersely expressed. | 26 | |
| 3672268386 | axioms | 1.a self-evident truth that requires no proof. 2.a universally accepted principle or rule. | 27 | |
| 3672270975 | double entendre | 1.a double meaning. 2.a word or expression used in a given context so that it can be understood in two ways, especially when one meaning is risqué. | 28 | |
| 3672276139 | anithesis | 1.the placing of a sentence or one of its parts against another to which it is opposed to form a balanced contrast of ideas, as in "Give me liberty or give me death.". 2.the second sentence or part thus set in opposition, as "or give me death.". | 29 | |
| 3672293482 | villanelle | a short poem of fixed form, written in tercets, usually five in number, followed by a final quatrain, all being based on two rhymes. | 30 | |
| 3672299371 | closed form | A type of form or structure in poetry characterized by regularity and consistency in such elements as rhyme, line length, and metrical pattern. | 31 | |
| 3672304519 | neoclassicism (1660-1800) | -end of restoration -publication of lyrical ballads -strong traditional philosophy -great respect for classical writers -literature = art, required long period of study and practice to be perfected, highly stylized -human beings = primary subject matter -art for humans sake (humanism) -emphasis placed on which humans have in common -individual = limited being | 32 | |
| 3672322720 | post modernism | -alienation of person from society -nonconventional forces -extension of modernism in new way (even more nonconventional) | 33 | |
| 3672932959 | realism | a manner of treating subject matter that presents a careful description of everyday life, usually of the lower and middle classes. a theory of writing in which the ordinary, familiar, or mundane aspects of life are represented in a straightforward or matter-of-fact manner that is presumed to reflect life as it actually is. | 34 | |
| 3672936674 | imagism | 1.a poetic movement in England and America between 1912 and 1917, initiated chiefly by Ezra Pound, advocating the use of ordinary speech and the precise presentation of images 2. (often initial capital letter) a theory or practice of a group of poets in England and America between 1909 and 1917 who believed that poetry should employ the language of common speech, create new rhythms, have complete freedom in subject matter, and present a clear, concentrated, and precise image. 3. a style of poetry that employs free verse and the patterns and rhythms of common speech. | 35 | |
| 3672939203 | naturalism | -a manner or technique of treating subject matter that presents, through volume of detail, a deterministic view of human life and actions. -a deterministic theory of writing in which it is held that a writer should adopt an objective view toward the material written about, be free of preconceived ideas as to form and content, and represent with clinical accuracy and frankness the details of life. Compare realism (def 4b). -a representation of natural appearances or natural patterns of speech, manner, etc., in a work of fiction. -the depiction of the physical environment, especially landscape or the rural environment. | 36 | |
| 3673007269 | allegory | a symbolical narrative | 37 | |
| 3673011683 | anecdote | a short usually amusing account of an incident, esp a personal or biographical one | 38 | |
| 3673016498 | overture | -an introductory part, as of a poem; prelude; prologue. -an opening or initiating move toward negotiations, a new relationship, an agreement, etc.; a formal or informal proposal or offer: | 39 | |
| 3673028463 | invocation | -the act of invoking or calling upon a deity, spirit, etc., for aid, protection, inspiration, or the like; supplication. -a form of prayer invoking God's presence, especially one said at the beginning of a religious service or public ceremony. | 40 | |
| 3673030760 | denouement | 1.the final resolution of the intricacies of a plot, as of a drama or novel. 2.the place in the plot at which this occurs. 3.the outcome or resolution of a doubtful series of occurrences. 4.the final clarification or resolution of a plot in a play or other work 5.final outcome;solution | 41 | |
| 3673035427 | coda | a concluding part of a literary work, esp a summary at the end of a novel of further developments in the lives of the characters | 42 | |
| 3673038810 | anastrophe | 1. inversion of the usual order of words 2."Ready are you? What know you of ready? For eight hundred years have I trained Jedi. My own counsel will I keep on who is to be trained. . . . This one a long time have I watched. . . . Never his mind on where he was." (Yoda) | 43 | |
| 3673047662 | passive voice | The ball was thrown by the pitcher | 44 | |
| 3673050542 | missive | a written message; letter. | 45 | |
| 3673052644 | epanalepsis | a repetition of a word or a phrase with intervening words setting off the repetition, sometimes occurring with a phrase used both at the beginning and end of a sentence, as in Only the poor really know what it is to suffer; only the poor. | 46 | |
| 3673056689 | metonymy | a figure of speech that consists of the use of the name of one object or concept for that of another to which it is related, or of which it is a part, as "scepter" for "sovereignty," or "the bottle" for "strong drink," or "count heads (or noses)" for "count people.". | 47 | |
| 3673059678 | leitmotif | 1. a motif or theme associated throughout a music drama with a particular person, situation, or idea. 2. an often repeated word, phrase, image, or theme in a literary work | 48 | |
| 3673064110 | bildungsroman | a type of novel concerned with the education, development, and maturing of a young protagonist. | 49 | |
| 3673069806 | synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part, the special for the general or the general for the special, as in ten sail for ten ships or a Croesus for a rich man. | 50 | |
| 3673072522 | synesthesia | the production of a sense impression relating to one sense or part of the body by stimulation of another sense or part of the body. -a technique adopted by writers to present ideas, characters or places in such a manner that they appeal to more than one senses like hearing, seeing, smell etc. at a given time. | 51 | |
| 3673074274 | litotes | understatement, especially that in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary, as in "not bad at all.". | 52 | |
| 3673076711 | appositives | When a noun or word is followed by another noun or phrase that renames or identifies it | 53 | |
| 3673079039 | semantics | the study of meaning, the study of linguistic developments | 54 | |
| 3673081686 | altercations | heated or angry dispute | 55 | |
| 3673085338 | Gothic novel | a genre of fiction characterized by mystery and supernatural horror, often set in a dark castle or other medieval setting | 56 | |
| 3673088955 | epic | a long narrative poem recounting in elevated style the deeds of a legendary hero, esp one originating in oral folk tradition | 57 | |
| 3673089939 | colloquialalism | a word or phrase appropriate to conversation and other informal situations | 58 | |
| 3673097979 | malapropism | 1. an act or habit of misusing words ridiculously, especially by the confusion of words that are similar in sound. 2. an instance of this, as in "Lead the way and we'll precede.". | 59 | |
| 3673099479 | paradox | a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth. | 60 | |
| 3673105336 | idioms | an expression whose meaning is not predictable from the usual meanings of its constituent elements, as kick the bucket or hang one's head, or from the general grammatical rules of a language, as the table round for the round table, and that is not a constituent of a larger expression of like characteristics. | 61 | |
| 3673106780 | jeremiad | a prolonged lamentation or mournful complaint. | 62 | |
| 3673107324 | pastoral | an elaborately conventional poem expressing a nostalgic image of the peace and simplicity of the life of shepherds and rural folk in an idealized natural setting | 63 | |
| 3673122928 | ode | long lyric poem that is serious in subject and elevated in style | 64 | |
| 3673132692 | dirge | expresses grief -short, less formal, represented as text to be sung | 65 | |
| 3673138450 | sestina | a poem of six six-line stanzas and a three-line envoy, originally without rhyme, in which each stanza repeats the end words of the lines of the first stanza, but in different order, the envoy using the six words again, three in the middle of the lines and three at the end. | 66 | |
| 3673148575 | Italian/Petrarchan sonnet | contains: -octave (eight lines) -sestet(six lines) of varying rhyme patterns, such as cdecde or cdccdc | 67 | |
| 3673157886 | English /Shakespearean Sonnet | sonnet contains: -three quatrains(sections of 4 lines, also called staves): abab cdcd efef -a concluding couplet(two rhyming lines) sometimes called the gemel | 68 | |
| 3673165772 | volta | turn or shift in Shakespearean sonnet after problem is proposed in the first octave | 69 | |
| 3673170258 | lyric | A kind of poetry, generally short, characterized by a musical use of language. Lyric poetry often involves the expression of intense personal emotion. The elegy, the ode, and the sonnet are forms of the lyric poem. | 70 | |
| 3673174432 | ballad | a narrative poem in short stanzas of popular origin, originally sung to a repeated tune | 71 | |
| 3673177428 | limerick | a kind of humorous verse of five lines, in which the first, second, and fifth lines rhyme with each other, and the third and fourth lines, which are shorter, form a rhymed couplet. | 72 | |
| 3673189295 | pastoral elegy | content represents the mourner and the one he mourns | 73 |
