Literature Final

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Allusion

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A figure of speech that echoes or makes brief reference to a literary or artistic work or historical figure event or object

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Archetype

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An image, a symbol, a character type or plot lines that occurs frequently enough in literature religion as folk tales fairy tales to be recognizable as an element of universal experience

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Blank verse

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Lines of unrhymed iambic pentameter, the most widely used verse form of poetry in English

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Refrain

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One or more identical or deliberately similar lines repeated throughout a poem such as the final line of a stanza or block of lines between stanzas

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Irony

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A feeling tone mood or attitude arising from the awareness that what is reality is opposite from and usually worse than what seems

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Alliteration

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The repetition of identical consonant sounds in the stressed syllables of words relatively near each other

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Antithesis

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A figure of speech in which contrasting words sentences or ideas are expressed in balanced parallel grammatical structures

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Confessional Poetry

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Poetry about personal private issues that usually speaks directly without the use of a persona

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Juxtaposition

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Placement of things side by side or close together for comparison or contrast or to create something new from the union

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Parallelism

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A verbal arrangement in which elements of equal weight within phrases sentences or paragraphs are expressed in a similar grammatical order and structure

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Prose Poem

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with lines wrapping at the right margin rather than being divided through the predetermined line breaks

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Rhythm

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The patterned movement of language created by the choice of words and their arrangement

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Satire

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A work or manner within a word that combines a critical attitude with humor and wit with the intent of improving humanity or human institutions

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Situational Irony

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The mood evoked when an action intended to have a certain effect turns out to have a different and more sinister effect

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Verbal irony

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A figure of speech in which what is said is nearly the opposite of what is meant

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Voice

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The supposed authorial presence in poems that do not obviously employ persona as a distancing device