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18 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
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Ordinary language organized into sentences and paragraphs.
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Prose
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Language organized into lines, usually based on a pattern (most often, meter)
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Verse
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Compound meter, typical of Old English poetry
Ex. Whale-road |
Kenning
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Metaphorical substitution of a part for the whole
Ex. Wheels, hand, suits |
Synechdoche
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The regular rhythm of a verse
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Meter
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Meter with four stresses per line
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Tetrameter
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Pause within a line of verse
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Caesura
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Repitition of an (initial) consonant sound
Ex. "the horror and havoc in Heorot" |
Alliteration
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Time and place in which a narrative is set
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Setting
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Events, in chronological order, in a narrative
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Story
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The arrangement or sequence of presentation of events in a narrative
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Plot
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A conventional plot in which a. society is under stress
b. a hero emerges c. the hero relieves the stress d. hero is recognized |
Heroic Romance
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A low, coarse tale, often telling of a husband's unwitting cooperation in his cuckolding
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Fabliau
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A unit of meter with one stress
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Foot
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A two syllable foot with the stress on the second syllable
Ex. begin |
Iamb
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Meter with five feet/stresses per line
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Pentameter
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Pentameter in which the predominant foot is an iamb
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Iambic pentameter
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Rhymed pairs of lines in iambic pentameter
Ex. Everything in Canterbury Tales |
Heroic Couplet
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