7630134666 | Caesura | A pause in a line of verse, indicated by natural speech patterns. | 0 | |
7630138004 | Caricature | A depiction in which a character's characteristics or features are exaggerated as to render them absurd. | 1 | |
7630164763 | Colloquial | Ordinary Language, the vernacular. | 2 | |
7630164764 | Conceit | A comparison of two unlikely things that is drawn out within a piece of literature, an extended metaphor within a poem. | 3 | |
7630164765 | Couplet | Two rhyming lines of iambic pentameter that together present a single idea or connection. | 4 | |
7630164766 | Dactylic | A metrical foot in poetry that consists of two stressed syllables followed by one unstressed. | 5 | |
7630164768 | Denotation | A direct and specific meaning, often referred to as dictionary meaning. | 6 | |
7630167636 | Dramatic Monologue | A monologue set in a specific situation and spoken to an imaginary audience. | 7 | |
7630170679 | Enjambment | The continuation of a sentence from one line or couplet of a poem to the next. | 8 | |
7630176788 | Polysyndeton | When several coordinating conjunctions are used in succession in order to achieve an artistic effect. | 9 | |
7630202529 | Asyndeton | A style in which conjunctions are omitted. | 10 | |
7630206660 | Elegy | A poetic lament upon the death of a particular person usually ending in a consolation. | 11 | |
7630212913 | Villanelle | A verse form consisting of 19 lines divided into six stanzas..... Check Packet Def. | 12 | |
7630220862 | Blank Verse | The verse form that resembles speech, and unrhymed lines. | 13 | |
7630224621 | Ballad Stanza | A common stanza form consisting of a quatrain that alternates four-beat and three-beat lines. | 14 | |
7630228989 | Attitude | The sense expressed by the tone of voice or mood of the writing. | 15 | |
7630231852 | Archtype | Recurrent designs, patters of action, character something. | 16 | |
7630237593 | Anapestic | A metric foot in poetry that consists of two unstressed syllables followed by one stressed. | 17 | |
7630242475 | Anecdote | A brief story or tale told by a character. | 18 | |
7630245283 | Allegory | A poetic narrative in which the characters behavior and setting have significance. | 19 | |
7630311853 | Rhetorical Question | A question asked for style not for an answer. | 20 | |
7630322407 | Anaphora | The regular repetition of a word at the beginning of successive phrases or clauses. | 21 | |
7630326926 | Apostrophe | An address or invocation to something inanimate. | 22 | |
7630329986 | Consonance | The repetition of a sequence of two or more consonants but with a change of vowels. | 23 | |
7630333747 | Chiasmus | A figure of speech by which the order of the terms in the first two parallel clauses is reversed in the second. | 24 | |
7630337731 | Oxymoron | A figure of speech that combines two contradictory elements. | 25 | |
7630340616 | Synecdoche | When a part is used to signify a whole. | 26 | |
7630345172 | Sonnet | Not doing this definition Right now sorry. (Sonnet) | 27 | |
7630349240 | Pastoral | A work that describes the simple life of country folk. | 28 | |
7630352470 | Antithesis | Sharply contrasting ideas in balanced or parallel words, phrases, or grammatical structure. | 29 | |
7630357239 | Iambic | Stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry. | 30 | |
7630359619 | Hyperbole | An overstatement by exaggerated language. | 31 | |
7630361719 | Flashback | When a previous event is inserted into normal chronological events in a narrative. | 32 |
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