Lit Final

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Paraphrase

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A prose restatement of the central ideas of a poem in your own language

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Theme

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A central idea or meaning

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Lyric

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

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Narrative Poem

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A poem that tells a story

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Epic

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A long narrative poem on a serious subject chronicling heroic deeds and important events

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Image

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Language that addresses the senses

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Metaphor

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Makes a comparison between two unlike things but does so implicitly, without words such as like or as.

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Implied metaphor

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Makes a comparison between two unlike things by hinting or alluding

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Extended metaphors

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Compares poetry to a game of catch the entire poem is organized around this comparison

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Controlling metaphors

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Comparisons at work throughout the entire poem

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Symbol

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Something that represents something else

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Conventional Symbol

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Something that is recognized by many people to represent certain ideas

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Literary\Contextual Symbol

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Goes beyond traditional public meetings

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Allegory

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A narration or description usually restricted to a single meaning because it's events, actions, characters, settings, and objects represent spacific abstractions or ideas.

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Didactic Poetry

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Designed to teach an ethical, moral or religious lesson

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Situational Irony

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What happens is entirely different from what is expected

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Verbal Irony

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Saying something different from what is meant

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Satire

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An example of the literary art of ridiculing a folly or vice in an effort to expose or correct it

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Dramatic Irony

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Used when a writer allows a reader to know more about a situation than a character does

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Ballad

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Tells a story that was sung from one generation to the next until It was finally transcribed

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Literary Ballads

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A more complex and sophisticated 19th century reflection of the original ballad Traditions that developed in the fifteenth century and earlier

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Onomatopoeia

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The use of a word that resembles the sound it denotes

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Alliteration

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The repetition of the same consonant sounds of the beginning of nearby words

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Assonance

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The repetition of the same vowel sound in nearby words

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Euphony

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Wines that are musically Pleasant to hear and smooth

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Cacophony

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Lines that are discordant in difficult to pronounce

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Rhyme

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A way of creating sound patterns. rhyme broadly defined consists of two or more words or phrases that repeat the same sound

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Eye rhyme

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The spellings are similar but the pronunciations or not

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End rhyme

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A line that comes at the end of lines

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Rhythm

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Refers to the reoccurrence of stressed and unstressed sounds

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Meter

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A rhythmic pattern of stresses that reoccurs in a poem

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Prosody

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All the metric elements in a poem that make up this

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Scansion

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Consist of measuring the stresses and a line to determine its metric pattern

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Foot

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The metric unit by which a line of poetry is measured

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Rising meters

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Meters that moves from one stressed too stressed sounds

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Falling meters

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Move more lightly and rapidly

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Line

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Measured by the number of feet it contains

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Masculine ending

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A line that ends with a stressed syllable

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Feminine Ending

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Who won the ends with an extra unstressed syllable