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21 Cards in this Set
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Italian/Petrarchan Sonnet |
14 line poem, divided into an octet and sestet, ABBA ABBA CDE CDE , written usually in iambic pentameter |
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Feminine ending |
Unstressed syllable at end |
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Meter |
The recurrence in regular units of a prominent feature in speech sounds of a language, named by number and type of feet in the line |
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Foot |
The combination of a strong and week stress which make up recurrent metric unit of a line |
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Iambic |
Foot where an unstressed is followed by a stressed syllable |
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Enjambment |
Run on line - missing stop at end of poetic line |
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Caesura |
A stop in the middle of the poetic line |
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Monometer/diameter etc... |
Poetic line with 1 2 3 ... 8 feet |
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English/shakespearrean sonnet |
14 line poem, written in iambic pentameter, 3 quatrains and a concluding couplete abab cdcd efef gg |
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Persona |
Speaker of the poem |
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Slant rhyme |
A pair of lines that should rhyme according to the rhyme scheme but is slightly off sonically. (God and blood) |
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First person narrator |
I |
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Second person narrative |
"You" - represented as experiencing what is narrated |
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Third person narrative |
He she they |
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Intrusive narrator |
One who not only reports but comments on and evaluates the actions of the character and sometimes expressed views about human life |
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Omniscient |
A narrator who knows everything |
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Limited narrator |
Story is told in third person but stays within the confines of what is perceived, thought, remembered, and felt by a single character within the story |
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Allusion |
A passing reference without explicit identification to something else |
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Intertexuality |
Multiple ways in which any one literary text is in fact made up of other texts |
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Metafiction |
Class of novels which depart from realism- fiction |
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Allegory |
Text with double meaning, narrative acts as an extended metaphor where persons, abstract ideas, or events represent not only the literal level but they stand for something else on a symbolic level. |
