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| 7011126087 | Concrete Details | the use of specific words (nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs) to create vivid word pictures that appeal to one of the five senses | 0 | |
| 7011126088 | Connotation | An implied meaning of a word. Opposite of denotation. Example: Good night, sweet prince, and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest (burial) | 1 | |
| 7011126089 | Consonance | The repetition of consonant sounds, but not vowels, as in assonance. Example: lady lounges lazily , dark deep dread crept in | 2 | |
| 7011126090 | Denotation | The literal meaning of a word, the dictionary meaning. Opposite of connotation. Example: Good night, sweet prince, and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest (sleep). | 3 | |
| 7011126091 | Didactic | A work of literature in which the author's primary purpose is to teach, instruct, or moralize | 4 | |
| 7011126092 | Dramatic Monologue | A poetic form in which a single speaker addresses at length either a presumed audience or an internal listener. | 5 | |
| 7011126093 | Epigram | a pithy saying or remark expressing an idea in a clever and amusing way. | 6 | |
| 7011126094 | Eulogy | a speech or writing in praise of a person(s) or thing(s), especially one who recently died or retired or as a term of endearment. | 7 | |
| 7011126095 | Form (poetic) | refers to various sets of "rules" followed by poems of certain types. The rules may describe such aspects as the rhythm or meter of the poem, its rhyme scheme, or its use of alliteration. This category contains articles discussing such concepts. | 8 | |
| 7011126096 | Haiku | A Japanese poem consisting of 17 syllables in three lines. (5, 7,5) | 9 | |
| 7011126097 | Hyphenated Kenning | (noun-noun format) - ex. hell-fiend | 10 | |
| 7011126098 | Inference | a conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning. | 11 | |
| 7011126099 | Kenning | In literature, a kenning is a magic poetic phrase, a figure of speech, substituted for the usual name of a person or thing. Kennings work in much the same way as epithets and verbal formulae, and were commonly inserted into Old English poetic lines; A figurative, usually compound expression used in place of a name or noun, especially in Old English and Old Norse poetry; for example, storm of swords is a kenning for battle. | 12 | |
| 7011126100 | Metaphysical | The term metaphysical was applied to a style of 17th Century poetry first by John Dryden and later by Dr. Samuel Johnson because of the highly intellectual and often abstruse imagery involved. | 13 | |
| 7011126101 | Ode | A lyric poem of some length, serious in subject and dignified in style. | 14 | |
| 7011126102 | Open Kenning | (adjective noun format) - ex. wakeful sleeper; monstrous ogress | 15 | |
| 7011126103 | Overstatement | the action of expressing or stating something too strongly; exaggeration, Synonym of hyperbole | 16 | |
| 7011126104 | Possessive Kenning | ('s or s' format)-- ex. hell's captive; whale's | 17 | |
| 7011126105 | Prepositional Kenning | (add any preposition) - ex. Giver of rings; hall of victory | 18 | |
| 7011126106 | Romantic | The term is used both in a general, and in a specific, way. The specific sense refers to Romanticism, a movement prevalent in European art, music, and literature in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The style was revolutionary in that it emphasized subjective experience, and favored innovation over adherence to traditional or Classical forms, and the expression of feeling over reason. In English literature, William Wordsworth (1770-1850) and Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) were first-generation Romantic poets, and Byron (1788-1824), Shelley (1792-1822), and Keats (1795-1821) were second-generation Romantics. In its more general application the term can refer to an attitude of mind which draws on imagination and emotion rather than reason, and favors subjective, dream-like, or exotic experiences over realism. | 19 | |
| 7011126107 | Rhyme | correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words, especially when these are used at the ends of lines of poetry. | 20 | |
| 7011126108 | Rhyme Scheme | the pattern of rhymes at the end of each line of a poem or song. It is usually referred to by using letters to indicate which lines rhyme; lines designated with the same letter all rhyme with each other | 21 | |
| 7011126109 | Sensory Details | details that are experienced through the senses; they help readers to see, feel, smell, taste, and hear what is being described | 22 | |
| 7011126110 | Soliloquy | The utterance of a character who is talking to himself or herself and who is unaware of any hearers who may be present. It is used in drama to allow the audience insight into a character's innermost feelings or to give the audience essential information. | 23 | |
| 7011126111 | Sonnet | A 14 line poem following a strict rhyme scheme and meter. The Shakespearean sonnet's rhyme scheme is abab cdcd efef gg and uses iambic pentameter. | 24 | |
| 7011126112 | Thesis | a statement or theory that is put forward as a premise to be maintained or proved. | 25 | |
| 7011126113 | Villanelle | a nineteen-line poetic form consisting of five tercets followed by a quatrain. There are two refrains and two repeating rhymes, with the first and third line of the first tercet repeated alternately until the last stanza, which includes both repeated lines | 26 | |
| 7011126114 | Anticlimactic | Coming after the climax especially of a dramatic or narrative plot | 27 | |
| 7011126115 | Austere | Of stern or strict bearing or demeanor | 28 | |
| 7011126116 | Bilge | Where the sides of a vessel curve in to form the bottom | 29 | |
| 7011126117 | Gunnels | Small eellike fishes common in shallow waters of the northern Atlantic | 30 | |
| 7011126118 | Inert | Unable to move or resist motion | 31 | |
| 7011126119 | Rosettes | An ornament or pattern resembling a rose that is worn as a badge of office or as recognition of having won an honor | 32 | |
| 7011126120 | Salient | Having a quality that thrusts itself into attention | 33 | |
| 7011126121 | Spasmodically | Occurring in spells and often abruptly | 34 | |
| 7011126122 | Trite | Repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse | 35 | |
| 7011126123 | Venerable | Profoundly honored | 36 | |
| 7011126124 | Alliteration | The repetition of initial sounds in neighboring words. Example: In cliches: sweet smell of success, a dime a dozen, bigger and better, jump for joy. | 37 | |
| 7011126125 | Apostrophe | An address, either to someone who is absent and therefore cannot hear the speaker or to something nonhuman that cannot comprehend | 38 | |
| 7011126126 | Assonance | The repetition of internal vowel sounds in nearby words that do not end the same | 39 | |
| 7011126127 | Atmosphere | Refers to the feeling, emotion, or mood a writer conveys to a reader through the description of settings and objects | 40 | |
| 7011126128 | Attitude | The author's feelings toward the topic he or she is writing about; often used interchangeably with "tone" and is usually revealed through word choice. | 41 | |
| 7011126129 | Audience | The intended group of readers / listeners / viewers of a text. | 42 | |
| 7011126130 | Cause and Effect | noting a relationship between actions or events such that one or more are the result of the other or others. | 43 | |
| 7011126131 | Comedy | A genre and a type of dramatic work that is amusing and satirical in its tone, mostly having cheerful endings. | 44 | |
| 7011126132 | Diction | Analysis of word choice. Word choice conveys voice or the author's or character's personality through the choice of idiom. | 45 | |
| 7011126133 | Epithet | a word or phrase to someone that describes that person's attributes or qualities. Often, this word or phrase, used to describe the person, becomes synonymous with the person and can be used as part of his/her name or in place of his/her name | 46 | |
| 7011126134 | Hyperbole | Use of specific words and phrases that exaggerate and overemphasize the basic crux of the statement in order to produce a grander, more noticeable effect | 47 | |
| 7011126135 | Irony | Words are used in such a way that their intended meaning is different from the actual meaning of the words. It may also be a situation that may end up in quite a different way than what is generally anticipated. In simple words, it is a difference between the appearance and the reality. | 48 | |
| 7011126136 | Juxtaposition | two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect | 49 | |
| 7011126137 | Lyric Poetry | Originally a composition meant for musical accompaniment. The term refers to a short poem in which the poet, the poet's persona, or another speaker expresses personal feelings. | 50 | |
| 7011126138 | Metonymy | the substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant, for example suit for business executive, or the track for horse racing. | 51 | |
| 7011126139 | Moral | The implied or stated lesson of a story is called the moral. Viewed in isolation, a moral is a relatively unimportant part of a story and should not be confused with a more significant fictional element, i.e., theme. | 52 | |
| 7011126140 | Nostalgic | Unhappy about being away and longing for familiar things | 53 | |
| 7011126141 | Paradox | a statement that appears to be self-contradictory or silly but may include a latent truth | 54 | |
| 7011126142 | Pernicious | causing insidious harm or ruin; ruinous; injurious; hurtful | 55 | |
| 7011126143 | Personification | A figure of speech in which a thing, an idea or an animal is given human attributes. The non-human objects are portrayed in such a way that we feel they have the ability to act like human beings | 56 | |
| 7011126144 | Repetition | repeats the same words or phrases a few times to make an idea clearer | 57 | |
| 7011126145 | Sarcasm | the literal meaning is different than what the speaker intends to say through sarcasm. Sarcasm is a literary and rhetorical device that is meant to mock with often satirical or ironic remarks with a purpose to amuse and hurt someone or some section of society simultaneously. | 58 | |
| 7011126146 | Satire | a technique employed by writers to expose and criticize foolishness and corruption of an individual or a society by using humor, irony, exaggeration or ridicule. It intends to improve humanity by criticizing its follies and foibles | 59 | |
| 7011126147 | Speaker | The "voice" which seems to be telling the poem. The speaker is not the same as the poet; the speaker is like a narrator. | 60 | |
| 7011126148 | Stanza | A stanza is a set of lines in a poem grouped together and set apart from other stanzas in the poem either by a double space or by different indentation. Poems may contain any number of stanzas, depending on the author's wishes and the structure in which the poet is writing. However, there are many strict poetic forms that designate the exact number of stanzas. | 61 | |
| 7011126149 | Synecdoche | a literary device in which a part of something represents the whole or it may use a whole to represent a part | 62 | |
| 7011126150 | Syntax | The ordering of words into meaningful verbal patterns, such as phrases, clauses, and sentences. | 63 | |
| 7011126151 | Understatement | a figure of speech employed by writers or speakers to intentionally make a situation seem less important than it really is | 64 | |
| 7011126152 | Wistful | Having or showing a feeling of vague or regretful longing | 65 |
