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26 Cards in this Set
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Verse |
writing arranged with a metrical rhythm, typically having a rhyme. |
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Prose |
written or spoken language in its ordinary form, without metrical structure. |
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Blank verse |
verse without rhyme, especially that which uses iambic pentameter. |
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Feminine Ending |
In grammatical gender, is the final syllable or suffixed letters that mark words as feminine. It can also refer to: Feminine ending, in meter (poetry), a line of verse that ends with an unstressed syllable.
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Masculine Ending |
Refers to a line ending in a stressed syllable. |
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Long line |
a line that is longer than the 10 beats of iambic pentameter |
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Caesura |
A break between words within a metrical foot. |
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Split Line |
a line of iambic pentameter split between two speakers |
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Iambic Pentameter |
A line of verse with five metrical feet, each consisting of one short (or unstressed) syllable followed by one long (or stressed) syllable, for example Two households, both alike in dignity. |
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Rhyme |
Correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words, especially when these are used at the ends of lines of poetry. |
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Antithesis |
A figure of speech in which an opposition or contrast of ideas is expressed by parallelism of words that are the opposites of, or strongly contrasted with, each other,
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Imagery |
visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work |
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Repitition |
The simple repeating of a word, within a sentence or a poetical line, with no particular placement of the words, in order to secure emphasis. |
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Classical Allusion |
A classical allusion is a reference to a particular event or character in classical works of literature, such as ancient Roman or Greek works. |
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Metaphor |
Comparison (a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable) |
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Pun |
a joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words that sound alike but have different meanings. |
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Simile |
Same as metaphor, but without using like or as. |
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Metonymy |
the substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant, |
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Synecdoche |
a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa |
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Foot |
a way of measuring beats in a line of poetry. |
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Irony |
the expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect. |
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Pesonification |
the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form. |
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Alliteration |
the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words. |
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Hyperbole |
exaggeration of ideas for the sake of emphasis |
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Anaphora |
the use of a word referring to or replacing a word used earlier in a sentence, to avoid repetition |
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Soliliquiy |
the act of talking while or as if alone |
