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| 9790623170 | in medias res | when a poem begins with a direct action | 0 | |
| 9790623171 | género oral | the tradition of transmitting stories orally | 1 | |
| 9790623172 | polifonía | dialogue between characters in a poem | 2 | |
| 9790623173 | estribillo | lines or group of lines that are repeated periodically in a poem, usually in "arte minor" and frequently containing the main idea | 3 | |
| 9790623174 | encabalgamiento | the continuation of an idea or phrase in the following line (when the grammatical pause does not coincide with the meaning) | 4 | |
| 9790623175 | la moraleja | the main message of the work | 5 | |
| 9790623176 | reporte | report on events | 6 | |
| 9790623177 | verso de arte mayor | a line with 9 or more syllables | 7 | |
| 9790623178 | verso de arte menor | a line with a maximum of 8 syllables | 8 | |
| 9790623179 | sinalefa | the manner of counting syllables in which the vowel at the end of the first word and the vowel at the beginning of the next word are combined (diphthong) and count as one syllable | 9 | |
| 9790623225 | rima asonante | 10 | ||
| 9790623226 | rima consonante | 11 | ||
| 9790623180 | apóstrofe | - when the speaker speaks directly to those either present or absent | 12 | |
| 9790623181 | código histórico | historical theme: place, time, significant events | 13 | |
| 9790623182 | código biográfico | biographical theme: the context or the circumstances of the author of the peice | 14 | |
| 9790623183 | el hipérbaton | alteration of the normal order of syntax (stems from Latin) | 15 | |
| 9790623184 | el soneto | a sonnet: 14 lines, 10 syllable lines, two 4-line groupings, two 3-line groupings | 16 | |
| 9790623185 | gongorismo | - from Góngora: a literary style characterized by studied obscurity and by the use of various ornate devices | 17 | |
| 9790623186 | el feísmo | the artistic tendency to value the ugly | 18 | |
| 9790623187 | cultismo | a word that is similar to the original Greek or Latin base | 19 | |
| 9790623188 | carpe diem | a latin saying meaning "seize the day" | 20 | |
| 9790623189 | sinestesia | - mix, merge or exchange feelings that come from different sensory domains - describe a noun in terms of a sense | 21 | |
| 9790623190 | metonimia | Figuratively designate one thing with the name of another with a certain relation (ex: doctors = white coats) | 22 | |
| 9790623191 | metáfora | a metaphor: a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance | 23 | |
| 9790623192 | comparación/ símil | means of comparing two dissimilar things using the words like "that" or "like" | 24 | |
| 9790623193 | el renacimiento | the Renaissance: the main exponents of this time are in the field of the arts, but it is also known for a renewal in the sciences, both natural and human | 25 | |
| 9790623194 | el barroco | the Baroque period: the art of this time became more refined and ornate, with survival of some classical rationalism, but adopted more dynamic and gimmicky shapes and a taste for the surprising and anecdotal by optical illusions and shock effect | 26 | |
| 9790623195 | el conceptismo | - characterized by the conciseness of expression and the semantic intensity of the words that can adopt various different meanings - Baroque movement, characterized by fast-paced, simple vocabulary and metaphors | 27 | |
| 9790623196 | apología | a speech in favor of something | 28 | |
| 9790623197 | redondilla | a verse of 4 lines with 8 syllables each: 1st and 4th rhyme, 2nd and 3rd rhyme | 29 | |
| 9790623198 | anáfora | the repetition of a word or words in a stanza | 30 | |
| 9790623199 | aliteración | alliteration: the repetition of sounds in successive words | 31 | |
| 9790623200 | antítesis | the juxtaposition of two ideas or words of opposite meaning | 32 | |
| 9790623201 | la misoginia | misogyny | 33 | |
| 9790623202 | verso alejandrino | 14 syllables (most of the poem, but there are fewer syllables verses: 9 or 1) | 34 | |
| 9790623203 | código del honor | the significance of honor: a very popular theme in works about knights and quests | 35 | |
| 9790623204 | antihéroe | a character who exhibits contrary views/actions/characteristics to those of the hero | 36 | |
| 9790623205 | la picaresca | - a narrative genre that criticizes the institutions of imperial Spain, harrows and idealizing Renaissance narratives - cheeky, thief characters who break rules with wit to survive | 37 | |
| 9790623206 | el pícaro | a person who makes mischief in order to survive | 38 | |
| 9790623207 | héroe | the hero: possesses skills and personality traits that allows them to perform extraordinary feats, idealized | 39 | |
| 9790623208 | el siglo de oro | the period of flourishing art and literature in Spain | 40 | |
| 9790623209 | la parodia | parody: a work that imitates another's in content and style in order to make fun of it | 41 | |
| 9790623210 | personificación | attributing human qualities to inanimate beings / abstract concepts | 42 | |
| 9790623211 | generación del 1898 | a group of writers, essayists and Spanish poets who were deeply affected by the social, moral, existential, and political crisis unleashed in Spain | 43 | |
| 9790623212 | asindenton | the elimination of connecting conjunctions in a sentence/list (Ex: "I came. I saw. I conquered." vs. "I came, and then I saw, and then I conquered.) | 44 | |
| 9790623213 | antonomasia | The use of a name to describe someone (such as "Don Quixote" to a madman, "Don Juan" to a womanizer) | 45 | |
| 9790623227 | renacimiento | 46 | ||
| 9790623214 | romanticismo | to break with classical tradition based on a stereotypical set of rules | 47 | |
| 9790623215 | el realismo | literature that describes something as it is in reality | 48 | |
| 9790623216 | el naturalismo | depicting everyday life as it is in reality - similar to realism | 49 | |
| 9790623217 | la isotopía | the repetition of words that share the same theme | 50 | |
| 9790623228 | pie quebrado | 51 | ||
| 9790623229 | meta poema | 52 | ||
| 9790623218 | destino trágico | when the hero has a tragic destiny | 53 | |
| 9790623219 | la silva | a form of poetry from Italy and employed in Spain during the Renaissance. It is free form with lines of different lengths (usually 7-syllabled of 11-syllabled) with different combinations and without fixed rhyming patterns | 54 | |
| 9790623220 | alegoría | a metaphor or an extended series of metaphors that propose a literal and figurative sense (usually has hidden meaning) | 55 | |
| 9790623221 | anacronismo | referring to something that does not seem to correspond to the period that is being referred to | 56 | |
| 9790623222 | parnasianismo | - art for art's sake - French poetic movement of the second half of the nineteenth century characterized by its inclination towards poetry of the most serene objectivity in the background and the classic perfection of form | 57 | |
| 9790623223 | hipérbole | obvious and intentional exaggeration | 58 |
