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| 5299470955 | accent | the stressed portion of a word in poetry (Ex. "To BE or NOT to be, THAT is the question.") |  | 0 |
| 5299470956 | opposition | a pairing of images whereby each becomes more striking and informative because it's placed in contrast to the other one (Ex. Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience) |  | 1 |
| 5299470957 | rhapsody | intensely passionate writing/poetry usually of love or praise; an ecstatic expression of feeling or enthusiasm (Ex. "A Rhapsody" by John Clare) |  | 2 |
| 5299470958 | bowdlerization | a later editor's censorship of sexuality, profanity, or political sentiment of an earlier author's text; usually denotes an inferior or incomplete text (Ex. Iago's claim that Othello and Desdemona are engaging in a lewd act.) |  | 3 |
| 5299470959 | Byronic hero | an antihero who is a romanticized but evil character; often a young and attractive male with a bad reputation who defies authority and conventional morality (Ex. Byron's Manfred or Hugo's Claude Frollo) |  | 4 |
| 5299470960 | canon | those works in literature that are considered standard or necessary for adequate knowledge of the field (Ex. Shakespeare for British lit. / Twain for American lit. etc.) |  | 5 |
| 5299470961 | carpe diem | "seize the day"; a theme, especially common in lyric poetry, that emphasizes that life is short, time is fleeting, and that one should make the most of present pleasures (Ex. Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress") |  | 6 |
| 5299470962 | didactic literature | literature intended to instruct or teach a lesson; exemplified by Medieval homilies and Victorian moral essays (Ex. Paradise Lost: "Justify God's ways to men") |  | 7 |
| 5299470963 | aestheticism | literary movement that encourages a focus on the experience of beauty rather than didactic messages or seeking truth (Ex. Walter Pater's Victorian literature) |  | 8 |
| 5299470964 | frame narrative | a story that encloses one or more separate stories; a story within a story (Ex. Frankenstein, Canterbury Tales) |  | 9 |
