semester one of student life creative writing
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| 452112596 | allegory | The device of using character and/or story elements symbolically to represent an abstraction in addition to the literal meaning. | |
| 452112597 | alliteration | the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words | |
| 452112598 | allusions | a reference to a place, person, event in history, piece of literature, etc. | |
| 452112599 | assonance | the repetition of vowel sounds | |
| 452112600 | audience | a gathering of spectators or listeners at a (usually public) performance | |
| 452112601 | central idea or theme | The main point of the work, the main focus or the underlying meaning (ex. Life is short, so make the most of every day) | |
| 452112602 | consonance | the repetition of consonants (or consonant patterns) especially at the ends of words | |
| 452112603 | free verse | poetry without a regular pattern of meter or rhyme | |
| 452112604 | hyperbole | exaggeration | |
| 452112605 | iambic pentameter | a common meter in poetry consisting of an unrhymed line with five feet or accents, each foot containing an unaccented syllable and an accented syllable | |
| 452112606 | litotes | understatement for emphasis | |
| 452112607 | metaphors | comparison between two unlike things WITHOUT using like or as | |
| 452112608 | meter | any of various measuring instruments for measuring a quantity | |
| 452112609 | paradox | a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth | |
| 452112610 | personification | the act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc. | |
| 452112611 | purpose | the quality of being determined to do or achieve something | |
| 452112612 | scan | examine hastily | |
| 452112613 | sestina | highly structured poem with 39 lines, iambic pentameter, and repetition of six words from first stanza in each of six stanzas | |
| 452112614 | similes | comparison using like or as | |
| 452112615 | situation / setting | the time and place in which the vents of a poem, short story, play, or novel occur | |
| 452112616 | sonnet | a verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme | |
| 452112617 | speaker | someone who expresses in language | |
| 452112618 | symbol | an arbitrary sign (written or printed) that has acquired a conventional significance | |
| 452112619 | tone | the quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author | |
| 452112620 | iambic | one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable | |
| 452112621 | trochaic | a metrical measurement of one stressed syllable and one unstressed, of or consisting of trochees | |
| 452112622 | dactylic | of or consisting of dactyls | |
| 452112623 | anapestic | (of a metric foot) characterized by two short syllables followed by a long one |
