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59 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
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elizabeth
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14 lines 10 syllables per line iambic pentameter
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cinquain
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5 lines increasing syllable count until last line 2 syllables
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sestina
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6 lines 6 stanzas final triplet
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petrarchan
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octave and sestet
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turn
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sequence of several consecutive notes
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villanelle
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19 lines two rhyumes
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explication
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analysis of literary work to reveal meaning
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poetic justice
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retribution
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motif
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dominant idea
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theme
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idea pervading a work of literature
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comedy of manners
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satrizes the behavior of a particular social group
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lyric
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expressing the writers emotions
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horatian satire
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playful
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juvenalian
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contemptful invective
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prosody
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pattern of rhyme
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duple meter
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two main beats per bar
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iambic
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unstressed to stressed
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trochaic
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stressed unstressed
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rising meter
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unstressed to stressed
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denouement
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reolution tying of strings
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blank verse
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no rhyme iambic pentameter
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common meter/hymn/ballad stanza
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iambic trimeter. four lines, abcb abab
ballad0- ;quatrian |
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couplet
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two lines same rhyme and meter
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closed couplet
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do not extend sense beyond lines end
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heroic couplet
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closed couplet iambic pentameter
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analogy
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comparision between two things for the purpose of clarification
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anaphora
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repitition at the beginning of sucessive clauses
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antithesis
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opposite
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incremental rep
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line repeated changed in minor context
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oxymoron
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apparently contradictionry terms appear in conjunction
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paradox
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self contradictory
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paralellism
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use of successive verbal contstructions
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pun
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exploiting different possible meainings of a word
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rhetorical accent/stress
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word in sentence being stressed
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cadence
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rhythm
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end rhyme
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sight rhyme
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slant
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half rhyme
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triple rhyme
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three syllables second/third unstressed
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alliteration
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same letter at beginning of adjacent or closley connected words
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assonance
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epitiion of vowels
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consonance
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reoccurace of consonances
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sibilance
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hissing sound
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ballad stanza
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four line stanza iambic meter
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envoy
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short stanza concluding a balad
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ottavia rima
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eight iambic lines, iambic pentameter
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refrain
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chorus
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rime royal
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sevel lines iambic pentameter ababbcc
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spensarian stanza
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eight lines iambic pentameter followed one line in iambic hexameter
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inversion or word order
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used to form euqstions/emphasis
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juxtaposition
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place side by side
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loose sentence
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independent cluase first
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active voice
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subject is agent oor actor of verb
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authorial voice
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individual writing style
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hyperbole
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exaggeration
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se;ntimentalism
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excessive expression of sad feelings
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allegory
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hidden meaning can be interpreted
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catachresis
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incorrect word usage
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synecdoche
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part made to rep whhole
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metonymy
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substitution of a name of adjunct/adj for thing menat (track for horse racing)
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