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| 3695848824 | Conceit | Figure of speech, usually a simile or metaphor, forming an ingenious parallel between dissimilar things | 0 | |
| 3695849929 | The Petrarchan conceit | hyperbolic comparison made by a suffering lover of his love to an object | 1 | |
| 3695852556 | Example of the Petrarchan conceit | my love --> like the ocean | 2 | |
| 3695854188 | The metaphysical conceit | sets up an analogy between entity's spiritual qualities and an object in the physical world; sometimes the controlling structure | 3 | |
| 3695856876 | Parallelism | Agreement in direction/tendency/character; a list of items | 4 | |
| 3695858667 | Analogy | Similarity between two things or situations | 5 | |
| 3695859935 | Metonymy | To refer to an object or idea by something intimately associated to it | 6 | |
| 3695872807 | Examples of metonymy | -"Kleenex" for tissue -"White House" for presidency -"Benjamin Franklyn's" for money | 7 | |
| 3695876832 | Synecdoche | -a specific type of metonymy -to use a part of something to refer to the whole | 8 | |
| 3695879651 | Examples of synecdoche | Get your "head" in the game All "hands" on deck | 9 | |
| 3695887604 | Synesthesia | To use one sensory experience through another -to "hear" color - | 10 | |
| 3695902132 | Invocation of the muse | muses are typically invoked at the beginning of the ancient epic poem, for whom an author is merely a mouthpiece | 11 | |
| 3695928981 | archetype | orignal form or pattern that all things derive from; Example: the tragic hero is a character archetype | 12 | |
| 3695935861 | Hero quest | A pattern or narrative identified by the American scholar Joseph Campbell that appears in drama, storytelling, myth, religious ritual, and psychological development. aka the typical adventure of a hero | 13 | |
| 3695940609 | "In medias res" | "In the middle of things." When a scene opens in the middle of action. | 14 | |
| 3695942785 | Epic | long poetic composition, usually centered upon a hero | 15 | |
| 3695944328 | Diction | word choice | 16 | |
| 3695955064 | Homeric/epic simile | extended similes that intensifies heroic stature of the subject | 17 | |
| 3695956929 | Tenor | subject of the simile (the thing); "James" | 18 | |
| 3695958574 | Vehicle | point of comparison; what you're comparing the object to. "Is like a queen." | 19 | |
| 3695960522 | Epithet | any word/phrase applied to a person or thing to describe an actual/attributed quality -nickname | 20 | |
| 3695964702 | 4 types of epithet | 1) physical 2) familial 3) occupational 4) geographical | 21 | |
| 3695967688 | stichomythia | dramatic dialogue in a play, characterized by brief exchanges between two people, usually one line of verse per person | 22 | |
| 3695976876 | irony | contrast between what what is and what appears to be | 23 | |
| 3695980279 | verbal irony | when one character says one thing but means another sarcasm!!!!! | 24 | |
| 3695982068 | situational irony | what happens is different than what is expected to happen | 25 | |
| 3695984060 | dramatic irony | audience is aware of crucial information that characters are unaware of | 26 | |
| 3695986687 | foil | a character that contrasts against another character | 27 | |
| 3695988730 | form | the structure, such as in a poem or play | 28 | |
| 3695990111 | rhyme scheme | pattern of a poem's rhymes | 29 | |
| 3695990112 | meter | rhythm/pattern of stressed/unstressed syllables in a play | 30 | |
| 3695991602 | speaker | voice used by author in a poem | 31 | |
| 3695992934 | oedipus complex | a boy's desire for his mother | 32 | |
| 3695994160 | electra complex | girl's romantic feelings toward her mother | 33 | |
| 3695996816 | orestes complex | son's murderous feelings toward his mother | 34 | |
| 3695998452 | madea complex | mother's hatred for her children, driven | 35 | |
| 3696010310 | id | the unconscious, pleasure seeking part of the mind | 36 | |
| 3696028514 | ego | conscious self, created by tensions between the id and the superego | 37 | |
| 3696029668 | superego | the "conscience," socially acquired; imparted usually by parents | 38 | |
| 3696031493 | daemon | "demon" full of knowledge, spiritual beings that guide mortals to make choices | 39 | |
| 3696045914 | Ars poetica | the art of poetry | 40 | |
| 3696046789 | annotate | add explanatory notes or supply with comments | 41 | |
| 3696048754 | enjambment | when a sentence in a poem continues from one line to the next "I like to... Play basketball." | 42 | |
| 3696050393 | rhythm | audible pattern in verse | 43 | |
| 3696051971 | iambic pentameter | a meter in which there are five feet (iambs) or two syllables each that are stressed/unstressed | 44 | |
| 3696090244 | Heroic couplet | set of 2 lines in iambic pentameter, sealed by an end rhyme | 45 | |
| 3696091162 | stanza | collection of lines of poetry, the paragraph of poetry | 46 | |
| 3696094440 | quatrain | 4 lines | 47 | |
| 3696094441 | couplet | 2 lines, frequently rhyming | 48 | |
| 3696097297 | Shakespearian/English sonnet | 14 lines w/ structure abab cdcd efefgg | 49 | |
| 3696101503 | syllogism | logic. If A, then B, then C. | 50 | |
| 3696102815 | volta | turn or shift in thought | 51 | |
| 3696102816 | refrain | a phrase or verse recurring at intervals; a chorus | 52 | |
| 3696104668 | tercet | stanza of 3 lines | 53 | |
| 3696106060 | remix (v) | to reassemble or revive a form of art | 54 | |
| 3696107705 | tertiary sources | reference works that lead to other sources | 55 | |
| 3696109675 | bibliography | list of sources used/consulted in the preparation of a work | 56 | |
| 3696110784 | annotated bibliography | list of citation of sources followed by brief, descriptive, evaluative paragraph, | 57 | |
| 3696114173 | ekphrasis | a literary description or commentary on a visual work of artq | 58 | |
| 3696122993 | freeverse | poem written in form with no rhyme or meter | 59 | |
| 3696128251 | white space | the blank area of a paper around the words of a poem | 60 | |
| 3696131521 | enumeration | a catalogue or list | 61 | |
| 3696131522 | the prose poem | technically not a real poem, but writing that uses the devices of a poem | 62 | |
| 3696133297 | internal rhyme | rhyming words within the same line | 63 | |
| 3696134695 | the outside-in rhyme | rhyming the end of a line with the start of the next line | 64 | |
| 3696138860 | compound rhyme | rhyming both parts of a compound word with another word, "wildwood" and "childhood." | 65 | |
| 3696148016 | apostrophe | an address to an absent or imaginary person ex: "you" in fall song | 66 |
