Week 2
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| 7301362030 | Approximate rhyme | A term used for words in a rhyming pattern that have some kind of sound correspondence but are not perfect rhymes (Imperfect rhyme, near rhyme, slant rhyme, oblique rhyme) | 0 | |
| 7301362031 | Artistic Unity | That condition of a successful literary work whereby all its elements work together for the achievement of its central purpose | 1 | |
| 7301362032 | Aside | A brief speech in which a character turns from the person being addressed to speak directly to the audience | 2 | |
| 7301362033 | Assonance | The repitition at close intervals of the vowel sounds of accented syllables or important words | 3 | |
| 7301362034 | Aubade | A poem about dawn; morning love song, or a poem about the parting of lovers at dawn | 4 | |
| 7301362035 | Ballad | A fairly short narrative poem written in a songlike stanza form | 5 | |
| 7301362036 | Blank Verse | Unrhymed iambic pentameter | 6 | |
| 7301362037 | Cacophony | A harsh, discordant, unpleasant-sounding choice and arrangement of sounds | 7 | |
| 7301362038 | Caesura | A speech pause ocurring within a line | 8 | |
| 7301362039 | Catharsis | A term used by Aristotle to describe some sort of emotional release experienced by the audience at the end of a successful tragedy | 9 | |
| 7301364246 | Chance | The occurrence of an event that has no apparent cause in antecedent events or in predisposition of character | 10 | |
| 7301364571 | Character | Any of the persons in a story or play | 11 | |
| 7301365266 | Character-developing | A character who during the course of a work undergoes a permanent change in some distinguishing moral qualities or personal traits or outlooks | 12 | |
| 7301366155 | Character-flat | A character who distinguishing moral qualities or personal traits are summed up in one or two traits | 13 | |
| 7301366843 | Character- Foil | A minor character whose situation or actions parallel those of a major character, and thus by contrast sets off or illuminates the major character; most often the contrast is complimentary to the major character | 14 | |
| 7301367203 | Character- Round | A character who distinguishing moral qualties or personal traits are complex and many-sided | 15 | |
| 7301367969 | Character- static | A character who is the same sort of person at the end of a work as at the beginning | 16 | |
| 7301368380 | Character- stock | A sterotyped character: one whose nature is familiar to us from prototypes in previous literature | 17 | |
| 7301368647 | Characterization | The various literary means by which characters are presented | 18 | |
| 7301369352 | Chorus | A group of actors speaking or chanting in unsion, often while going through the steps of an elaborate formalized dance; a characteristic device of greek drama for conveying communal or group emotion | 19 | |
| 7763339883 | Fantasy | A kind of fiction that pictures creatures or events beyond the boundaries of known reality | 20 | |
| 7763355384 | Farce | A type of drama related to comedy but emphasizing improbable situations, violent conflicts, physical action, and coarse over characterization or articulated plot | 21 | |
| 7763357918 | Feminine Rhyme | A rhyme in which the repeated accented vowel is in either the second or third last syllable of the words involved | 22 | |
| 7763361095 | Figurative Language | Language employing figures of speech ; language that cannot be taken literally or only literally | 23 | |
| 7763363948 | Figure of speech | Broadly, any way of saying something other than the ordinary way; more narrowly | 24 | |
| 7763439121 | Fixed form | A form of poem in which the length and pattern are prescribed by previous usage or tradition, such as sonnet, villanelle, and so on | 25 | |
| 7763442625 | Folk ballad | A narrative poem designed to be sung, composed by an anonymous author, and transmitted orally for years or generations before being written down. It has usually undergone modification through the process of oral transmission. | 26 | |
| 7763455390 | Foot | The basic unit used in the scansion or measurement of verse. A foot usually contains one accented syllable and one or two unaccented syllables | 27 | |
| 7763462200 | Form | The external pattern or shape of a poem, describable without reference to its content, as continuous form, stanza form, fixed form, free verse, and syllabic verse. | 28 | |
| 7763462201 | Free Verse | Non metrical poetry in which the basic rhythmic unit is the line, and in which pauses, line breaks, and formal patterns develop organically from the requirements of the individual poem rather than from established poetic forms | 29 | |
| 8667408602 | Quatrain | 1) A four-line stanza, 2) A four-line division of a sonnet marked off by its rhyme scheme | 30 | |
| 8667410506 | Realistic Drama | Drama that attempts, to preserve the illusion of actual, everyday life | 31 | |
| 8667410507 | Refrain | A repeated word, phrase, line, or group of lines | 32 | |
| 8667445401 | Rhetorical pause | A natural pause, unmarked by punctuation | 33 | |
| 8667457822 | Rhetorical Poetry | Poetry using artificially eloquent language | 34 | |
| 8667463027 | Rhetorical Stress | In natural speech, as in prose and poetic writing | 35 | |
| 8667464669 | Rhyme | repetition of the accented vowel sound and all succeeding sounds | 36 | |
| 8667464670 | Rhyme scheme | Any fixed pattern of rhymes characterizing a whole poem or its stanzas | 37 | |
| 8667466548 | Rhythm | Any wavelike recurrence of motion or sound | 38 | |
| 8667468454 | Rising action | That development of plot in a story or play that proceeds and leads up to climax | 39 |
