Eng Midterm Vocab

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Allegory

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A narrative verse or prose, in which ABSTRACT QUALITIES ARE PERSONIFIED AS CHARACTERS

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Alliteration

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Repetition of the same CONSONANT sounds, usually at teh beginning of words in close proximity

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Allusion

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A REFERENCE IN A LITERARY WORK to something outside the work, usually to some famous person, place, or event in ANOTHER LITERARY WORK

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Analogy

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A comparison that uses a known thing or concept to explain something unfamiliar

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Apostrophe

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A direct address to a person who is absent or to an abstract or inanimate entity

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Assonance

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The repetition of VOWEL in a line, sentence, or stanza

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Blank Verse

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Lines of unrhymed iambic pentameter

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Characterization

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Means of presenting and developing a character

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Connotation

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ASSOCIATIVE AND SUGGESTIVE meanings of a word, in contrast to its literal meaning

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Consonance

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Repetition of FINAL CONSONANT SOUNDS in stressed syllables

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Couplet

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Pair of rhymed lines

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Denotation

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The LITERAL DICTIONARY definition of a word

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Epiphany

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Sudden manifestation

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Euphony

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Languange embodying sounds pleasing to the ear

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Exposition

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Information supplied to the reader which states what happened before the story begins

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Figurative Language

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A general term covering the many ways in which language is used NONLITERALLY

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Free Verse

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Poetry, usually unrhymed, that doesn't follow traditional meter

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Hyperbole

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Emboides OVERSTATEMENT or EXAGGERATION

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Imagery

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Language that embodies an APPEAL to a physical sense, USUALLY SIGHT

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Irony

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Figurative language in which the intended meaning differs from the literal meaning

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Lyric

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A relatively short poem expressing the thought or feeling of a SINGLE SPEAKER, song accompanied by a lyre

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Metaphor

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A figurative expression consisting of two elements in which one element is provided with special attributes by being EQUATED with a second, UNLIKE ELEMENT.

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Meter

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Recurrent patterns of accented and unaccented syllables in verse

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Ode

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Long, serious poem on exalted subjects

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Mood

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Atmosphere of the work

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Onomatopoeia

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Language that SOUNDS like it means

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Oxymoron

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Contradictory ideas are combined to created a condenced paradox (DEAFINING SILENCE)

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Pentameter

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A line containing FIVE metrical feet

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Personification

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The ATTRIBUTION OF HUMAN QUALITIES to NONHUMAN things

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Plot

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A SERIES OF EVENTS in a story that bear a significant relationship to each other

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Paradox

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A statement that SEEMS SELF-CONTRADICTORY but is valid

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Rhyme

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The repetition of the final stressed vowel sound and any sounds following

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Setting

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The place, time, and social context in which a work occurs

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Simile

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Comparison of unlike things introduced by the words LIKE or AS

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Soliloquy

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Dramatic convention in which an actor, alone on the stage, speaks his thoughts aloud

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Sonnet

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Lyric poem of FOURTEEN LINES, usually of IAMBIC PENTAMETER

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Stanza

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The grouping of a fixed number of verse lines in a recurring metrical and rhyme pattern

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Symbol

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An object, action, or person that represents more than itself

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Theme

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The statement or underlying idea of a literary work, advanced through the concrete elements of character, action, and setting

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Tone

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The attitude embodied in the language a writer chooses

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Verse

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A stanza of a poem