Lit Terms for the Lanese Midterm!
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| 2499356781 | alliteration | repetition at close intervals of initial consonant words | 0 | |
| 2499356782 | assonance | repetition at close intervals of vowel sounds | 1 | |
| 2499356783 | consonance | repetition at close intervals of consonant sounds | 2 | |
| 2499356784 | cacophony | harsh, non-melodic, unpleasant sounding arrangement of words | 3 | |
| 2499356785 | euphony | pleasant, easy to articulate words | 4 | |
| 2499356786 | onomatopoeia | use of words which mimic their meaning in sound | 5 | |
| 2499356788 | allegory | characters are symbols (i.e. "Faith," "Hope"), has a moral | 6 | |
| 2499356789 | apostrophe | someone absent, dead, or imaginary, or an abstraction (i.e. "Death"), is being addressed as if it could reply | 7 | |
| 2499356790 | didactic poetry | poetry with the primary purpose of teaching or preaching | 8 | |
| 2499356791 | dramatic monologue | character "speaks" through the poem; a character study | 9 | |
| 2499356792 | elegy | poem which expresses sorow over a death of someone for whom the poet cared, or on another solemn theme | 10 | |
| 2499356793 | sonnet | 14 line poem, fixed rhyme scheme, fixed meter (usually 10 syllables per line) - introduces a problem or idea and provides a response or comment or "argument" | 11 | |
| 2499356794 | connotation | what a word suggests beyond its surface definition | 12 | |
| 2499356795 | denotation | basic definition or dictionary meaning of a word | 13 | |
| 2499356796 | diction | choice of words for effect | 14 | |
| 2499356797 | syntax | word order or grammatical pattern (i.e. parallel syntax is the repetition of the same pattern) | 15 | |
| 2499356798 | blank verse | unrhymed iambic pentameter - common in Shakespeare's plays | 16 | |
| 2499356799 | caesura | a pause in the middle of a line, sometimes coinciding with punctuation | 17 | |
| 2499356800 | couplet | two successive lines which rhyme, usually at the end of a work (each Act in a Shakespeare play ends with one of these) | 18 | |
| 2499356801 | enjambment | describes a line of poetry in which the grammatical unit (generally, a sentence) continues on to the next line | 19 | |
| 2499356803 | free verse | no fixed meter or rhyme | 20 | |
| 2499370789 | heroic epic | a long, serious, poetic narrative about a significant event, often featuring a hero | 21 | |
| 2499356804 | iambic pentameter | 70% of verse is written this way; ten syllables per line, following an order of unaccented-accented syllables (da-DUM, da-DUM) | 22 | |
| 2499356805 | internal rhyme | repetition of sounds within a line (but not at the end of the line) | 23 | |
| 2499356807 | meter | regularized rhythm of stressed and unstressed syllables; accents occur at approximately equal intervals of time | 24 | |
| 2499356808 | refrain | repeated word, phrase, line, or group of lines in a pattern | 25 | |
| 2499356809 | rhyme | repetition of end sounds | 26 | |
| 2499356810 | rhythm | recurrence of sound in a work of literature (just like in a song) | 27 | |
| 2499356811 | stanza | group of lines in a poem | 28 | |
| 2499356812 | structure | internal organization of a poem's content, can be a fixed form (i.e. a sonnet) or developed by the poet (i.e. free verse) | 29 | |
| 2499356813 | allusion | a reference to something in literature, history, or the Bible | 30 | |
| 2499356814 | anaphora | repetition of the same word or words at the start of two or more lines | 31 | |
| 2499356815 | archetype | a character or personality type found in every culture (i.e. the mother figure, the hero, the villain) | 32 | |
| 2499356816 | conceit | an extended witty, paradoxical, or startling metaphor, usually extended throughout the poem | 33 | |
| 2499356817 | hyperbole | exaggeration, overstatement | 34 | |
| 2499356818 | imagery | representation through language of a sensory experience | 35 | |
| 2499356819 | irony | incongruity or discrepancy between the implied and expected; verbal, dramatic, situational | 36 | |
| 2499356820 | metaphor | implied or direct non-literal comparison | 37 | |
| 2499356821 | metonymy | symbolism; one thing is used as a substitute for another with which it is closely identified (the White House) | 38 | |
| 2499356822 | mood | the emotion prompted in the reader or the "atmosphere" of a work | 39 | |
| 2499356823 | oxymoron | compact paradox in which two successive words contradict each other ("sweet sorrow") | 40 | |
| 2499356824 | pace | tempo or rate implied by the structure and style of a work, influences the mood and atmosphere | 41 | |
| 2499356825 | paradox | statement or situation containing seemingly contradictory elements | 42 | |
| 2499356826 | parallelism | presents coordinating ideas with the same structure ("I came, I saw, I conquered.") | 43 | |
| 2499410299 | pastoral | a work of literature portraying an idealized version of country life | 44 | |
| 2499356827 | persona | assumed speaker of the poem; typically used synonymously with 'speaker' | 45 | |
| 2499356828 | personification | giving a non-human the characteristics of a human | 46 | |
| 2499356829 | simile | comparison using 'like' or 'as' | 47 | |
| 2499356830 | style | an author's combined use of these ideas into a recurring pattern of usage | 48 | |
| 2499356831 | symbolism | something (object, person, situation, etc.) means more than what it is | 49 | |
| 2499356832 | synecdoche | symbolism; the part signifies the whole, or the whole the part (all hands on board) | 50 | |
| 2499356833 | theme | central idea or argument of a work | 51 | |
| 2499356834 | tone | writer's attitude toward the audience or subject, implied or related directly | 52 | |
| 2499356835 | understatement | saying less than one means, for effect | 53 | |
| 2499443759 | ode | a formal, often ceremonious lyric poem that addresses and often celebrates a person, place, thing, or idea | 54 | |
| 2499467865 | ballad | a simple narrative poem of folk origin, composed in short stanzas and adapted for singing | 55 | |
| 2499474209 | lyric | expresses the thoughts and feelings of the poet directly to a reader | 56 |
