English Literary Terms Vocab 2

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Catalog

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A list of things, people, or events.

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Parallel Structure

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The repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structures.

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Free Verse

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Poetry that does not conform to regular meter or rhyme scheme.

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Imagery

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The use of language to evoke a picture or a concrete sensation of a person, a thing, a place, or an experience.

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Coda

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A summing up and restatement of the themes of the entire poem.

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Symbol

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A person, a place, a thing, or an event that has meaning in itself and that also stands for something more than itself.

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Tone

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The attitude a writer takes toward the subject of a work, the characters in it, or the audience.

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Exact Rhyme

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Occurs when the accented syllables and all following syllables of two or more words share identical sounds, as in the words free and bee or mixture and fixture.

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Slant Rhyme

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A rhyming sound that is not exact.

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Personification

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A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes.

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Pun

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A play on words based on the multiple meanings of a single word or on words that sound alike but mean different things.

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Irony

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In general, a discrepancy between appearances and reality.

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Mood

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The overall emotion created by a work of literature.

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Cadence

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The natural, rhythmic rise and fall of a language as it is normally spoken.

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Scud

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Windblown mist and low clouds.

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Galls

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Sores.

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Effuse

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Spread out.

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Scruples

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Doubts or misgivings about what is right and what is wrong.

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Circuit

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Indirect path.

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Nectar

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Name for the drink of the Greek and Roman gods; also, a term applied to any delicious beverage.

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Sorest

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Deepest; most extreme.

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Gossamer

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Thin, soft material.

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Cornice

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Molding at the top of a building.

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Bisabuelas

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Great-grandmothers.

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Cafecito

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Little cup of coffee.

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Chismeando

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Gossiping.

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Hieroglyphic

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Picture symbol used in a writing system to represent sounds or words.

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Inebriate

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Drunk.

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Debauchee

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Person who overindulges in pleasures.

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Tippler

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Drinker.