More Mat Vocab

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allegory

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poetry or prose in which abstract ideas are represented by individual characters, events, or objects

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aliteration

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rapid repetition of consonants in a given line of poetry or prose

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allusion

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reference to one literary work in another

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anachronism

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chronological error in which a relationship between events or objects is historically implausible

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anapest

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meterical foot where two unstressed syllables are followed by a stressed syllable

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antagonist

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goes against actions of literary hero

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antihero

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protagonist of a literary work who has none of the characteristics of the hero

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apostrophe

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direct address to someone or something not present

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assonance

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rapid repetition of consonants in a given line of poetry or prose

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ballad

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a poem, often intended to be sung, that tells a story

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bathos

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deliberate anticlimax used to make a definitive point

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bildungsroman

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a coming of age story, usually autobiographical

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blank verse

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unrhymed poetry usually written in iambic pentameter

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caesura

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a deliberate pause in a line of poetry

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canto

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analogous to chapter in a novel, it is a division in a poem

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climax

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the peak of action in a line of poetry

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conceits

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elaborate comparisons between unlike objects

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consanance

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repetition of consonant sounds with unlike vowels-similar to alliteration

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couplet

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pair of rhyming lines of poetry in the same meter

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dactyl

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metrical foot composed of one stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables

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denouement

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the action following the climax in a literary work

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diction

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word choice or syntax

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doggerel

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crudely written poetry, in which words are oftern mangled to fit a rhyme scheme

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elegy

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a poem lamenting the passage of something

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enjambment

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in poetry, the continuation of a phrase or sentence onto the following line

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epistolary

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refers to a novel or story tld in the form of letters

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fable

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story used to illustrate a moral lesson

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foot

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group of syllables that make up a metered unit of a verse

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haiku

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17 syllable 5-7-5 poetry

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hubris

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in a tragic drama, the excessive pride that leads to the fall of a hero

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hyperbole

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exagerration for effect

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aimb

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foot containing two syllables, a short then a long (in quanitiative meter)

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irony

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a deliberate discrepancy between literal meaning and intended meaning

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malapropism

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often used for humourous effect, it is the substitution of a word for one that souns similar but has radically different meaning

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metaphor

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form of comparison in which something is said to be something else, often an unlikely pairing

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meter

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combination of stressed and unstressed syllables that creates the rhythm of a poem

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metonymy

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phrase or statement that takes on latger meaning

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motif

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recurrence of a word or theme in a novel or poem

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onomatopoeia

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word whose sound suggests its meaning; for example, crash

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oxymoron

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two contradictory words used together to create deeper meaning; for example, sweet sorrow

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paradox

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seemingly contradictory phrases, which proves to be true upon comparison

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pathos

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an appeal that evokes pity or sympathy

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scansion

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the annotation of the meter of a poem

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simile

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means of comparison using either "like" or "as"

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sonnet

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verse form consisting of fourteen lines arranged in an octet (eight lines) and a sextet (six lines) usually ending in a couplet; in common English form, arranged in three quatrains followed by a couplet

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spondee

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a meterical foot comprised of two stressed syllables

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synedoche

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the use of part of a thing to represent the whole; for example, "wheels" for a car

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tone

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attitude of the speaker, setting the mood for a given passage

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trochee

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meterical foot composed of a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable

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villanelle

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verse form consisting of five tercets and a quatrain, the first and third lines of the tercet recur alternately as the last line of the other tercet recur alternately as the last lines of the other tercets and together as the last lines of the quatrain