Poetry Terms Enl3 Midterm 1 Embry

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symbol

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something that represents somethign else; has greater meaning; universal meaning/understanding

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narrator

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from the 1st, 2nd, or 3rd person's point of view w/ telling of a story

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prose

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everything that is not poetry

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enjambed / enjambment

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line of poetry which logically or grammatically spills over to the next line

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end-stopped

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line of poetry which is logically or grammatically complete

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stanza

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grouping of lines in a poem

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caesura

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a strong pause within a line of poetry

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connotation

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everything we think about when we hear the word; associations connected to a word

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denotation

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dictionary definition; literal meaning of the word

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syntax

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order of the sentence; grammatical arrangement of words in sentences

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hypotaxis

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grammatical arrangement of functional similar but "unequal" contructs (while washing dishes, I sang to myself)

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parataxis

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a rhetorical & syntactic arrangement in which clauses are strung together in series, without subordination (I came, I saw, I conquered)

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diction

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word choice; style of speaking or writing as dependent upon choices of words

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metaphor

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comparing one thing to another

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tenor

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main subject of argument; course of thought or meaning that runs through something written or spoken; subject of a metaphor

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vehicle

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moves something from one place to another; carrying over; thing or idea to which the subject of a metaphor is compared

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story

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series of events in chronological order

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plot

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series of events deliberately arranged for dramatic, thematic, & emotional significance

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iamb / iambic

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metrical foot consisting of one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable

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trochee / trochaic

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a metrical foot consisting of one stressed syllable followed by one unstressed syllable

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prosody

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the systematic study of metrical structure

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scansion

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a visual code for marking meter & rhythm

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foot

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basic unit of verse measurement consisting of a combination of stressed & unstressed syllables

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pyrrhus / pyrrhic

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a metrical foot consisting of two unstressed syllables

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spondee / spondaic

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a matrical foot consisting of two stressed syllables

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anapest / anapestic

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a metrical foot consisting of two unstressed syllables followed by one stressed syllables

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dactyl / dactylic

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a metrical foot consisting of one stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables

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breve

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mark used to indicate an unstressed syllable

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ictus

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mark used to indicate a stressed syllable

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metonymy

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a figure of speech in which one word or phrase is substituted for another with which it is closely associated (physically or logically)

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synechdoche

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part used for the whole (hand for sailor) or whole for a part (the law for police officer)

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trope

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literary or rhetorical device that consists in the use of words in other than their literal sense

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simile

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form of expression using 'like' or 'as' in which one thing is compared to another which it only resembles in one of a small number of ways

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poetry

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imaginative or creative literature; art as a form of literature

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event

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something that happens or is regarded as happening; an occurrence

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narrative

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retelling of a story that happened; describes a sequence of events