English 1092 - Literary Terms

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Alliteration

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Repitition of the same consonant sounds in a sequence of words "luscious Lemons"

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Allusion

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Brief reference to a person, place, thing, event, or idea in history or literature

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Assonance

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Repitition of internal vowel sounds in nearby words that do not end the same "asleep under a tree' or "each evening"

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Consonance

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Common type of near rhyme that consists of identical consonant sounds preceded by different vowel sounds: home, same; worth, breath

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Cacophony

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Language that is discordant and difficult to prnounce, such as "never my numb punker fumbles"; "bad sound", used consciously for deliberate dramatic effect

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Euphony

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"good sound"; Refers to language that is smooth and musically pleasant to the ear

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Connotation

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associations and implicaitons that go beyond a wrod's literal meaning and deriving from how the word has been commonly used and associations people make with it

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Denotation

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dictionary meaning of a word

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Image

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word, phrase,or figure of speech tha adresses the senses, suggesting mental pictures of sights, sounds, smells, tastes, feelings, or actions. (similes or metaphors)Conves emotions and moods through verbal pictures

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Figures of Speech

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ways of using language that deviate from teh liteeral, denotative meanings of words in order to suggest additional meanings or effects

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Metaphor
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Simile

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M-figure of speech that makes a comparison between 2 unlike things, withought using the words like or as
S- common figure of speech that makes an explicit comparison between two things using like, as, than, appears, and seems

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Hyperbole

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boldly exaggerated statement that adds emphasis without intending to be literally true

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Irony

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literary device that uses contradictory statements or situations to reveal a reality different from what appearsto be true

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Paradox

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statement that initially appears to be contradictory but then, turns out to make sense; "Death, thou shalt die"

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Parody

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humorous imitation of another, usually serious, work- imitate the thetone, language and shape of original

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Persona

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persona is a mask; speaker created by a writer to tell a story or to speak in a poem; not a character in a story or narrative

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Personification

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form of a metaphor in which human characteristics are attributed to nonhuman things; give the world life and motion by assigning familiar human behaviors and emotions to animals/inanimate objects/abstract ideas

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Symbol

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person, object, image, word, or event that evokes a range of additional meaning beyond and usually more abstract that its literal significance

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Rhyme

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repitition of identical or similar concluding syllables in different words, most often at the ends of lines

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Sonnet:
Italian
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English

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Fixed form of lyric poetry consisting of 14 lines, usually written in iambic pentameter
I- divided into an octave, rhyming abbaabba
E- 2 quatrains and a couplet rhyming abab cdcd efef gg

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Octave

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poetic stanza of eight lines, usually forming one part of a sonnet

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Sestet

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stanza consisting of exactly six lines

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Tercet

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three line stanza

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Couplet

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Two consecutive lines of poetry that usually rhyme and ahve the same meter

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Quatrain

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four line stanza; most common

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Ballad

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song, transmitted orally from generation to generation, that tells a story an that eventually is written down

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Ode

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relatively lengthy lyric poemt hat often expresses lofty emotions in a dignified style; serious topic such as truth, art, freedom, justice, or meaning of line; tone is formal

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Blank Verse

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unrhymed iambic pentameter; English verse form closest to the natural rhytms of english speech and is the most common pattern

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Free Verse

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open form poetry; refers to pems charactgerized by their nonconformity to established patterns of meter, rhyme, and stanza

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Elegy

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mournful, contemplative lyric poem written to commemorate someone who is dead, often ending in a consolation

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Epic

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long, narrative poem, todl in a formal, elevated style, that focuses on a serious subject and chronicles heroic deeds and events important to a culture or nation

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Lyric

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type of brief poem that expresses the personal emotions and thoughts of a single speaker

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Villanelle

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type of fixed poetry consisting of 19 lines of any length divided into 6 stanzas: 5 tercets and a concluding quatrain

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Enjambment

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when one line ends without a pause and continues into the next line for its meaning; run on line

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Onomatopoeia

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use of a word that resembles the sound it denotes: buzz, rattle, bang, sizzle

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Oxymoron

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condensed form of paradox in which two contradictory words are used together "sweet sorrow" or "jumbo shrip"

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Dramatic Dialogue

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type of lyric poem in which a character (the speaker)addresses a distinct but silent audience imagined to be present in the poem in such a way as to reveal a dramatic situation and often unintentionally some aspect of his or her temperament or personality