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Allegory |
A narrative that tells one story under the guise of telling another |
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Parallelism |
Such an arrangement that one element of equal importance with another is similarly developed and phrased |
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Eulogy |
A dignified, formal speech or form of writing that praises a person or thing. Usually for the dead. |
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Fabliau |
A short narrative poem that is comic or satirical in nature and frequently involves sexual and scatological detail |
Chaucer, "The Canterbury Tales" |
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Iamb |
A metrical unit consisting of one unstressed and one stressed syllable |
Shakespeare, iambic pentameter |
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Ekphrasis |
The representation of a work of art within a work of art |
Shakespeare/theater |
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Homophone |
Two words, unrelated in meaning, that share the same pronunciation |
Meet/meat |
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Oxymoron |
A conjunction of normally incompatible terms |
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Elegy |
Originally a form of Greek or Latin poetry written in alternating hexameters and pentameters, this term came to be applied to poetry memorializing loss |
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Frame narrative |
A narrative that explains the genesis of and serves as the container for a series of shorter narratives |
Story within a story |
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End-stopped |
A line of verse that ends in punctuation. |
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Alliteration |
Repetition of an initial consonant or consonant cluster in consecutive words |
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Hexameter |
A line of verse consisting of six iterations of a metrical foot |
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Lai |
A short narrative poem on the theme of adventure and romance and often including all of the supernatural |
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Free verse |
A style of verse that has eschewed both rhyme and regular meter |
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Euphemism |
Reference to something distasteful via an alternative, more palatable description |
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Georgic |
Literally meaning "farming," a poetic genre that offers instructions on agricultural and sometimes scientific subjects |
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Anaphora |
The repetition of a word or words at the beginning of successive clauses |
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, "Cry of the Children" OR MLK's "I Have a Dream" |
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Litotes |
Understatement, especially by negation of a condition contrary to that actually prevailing (Downplaying) |
Beowulf |
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Metonymy |
Identification of a concept by reference to a habitually associated concept |
Businessmen - suits Police officers - cops |
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Apostrophe |
An address to an absent person, force, or quality |
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Hypermetrical |
A line of verse that exceeds the expected metrical length |
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Epithalmion |
A wedding poem congratulating the couple and wishing them happiness |
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Enjambment |
The continuation of the syntactical unit beyond |
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Anagnorisis |
The moment at which a protagonist understands or recognizes the truth of a situation |
"Oh ****" moment |
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Apposition |
The repetition of elements that serve an identical function within a sentence but achieve a different semantic nuance |
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Antithesis |
The juxtaposition of opposing terms within a single sentence |
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Denouement |
Literally "unknotting," the point at which the narrative can be resolved and so ended |
AKA) lusis |
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Occult |
Hidden relationship |
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Aubade |
A poetic genre that celebrates - or bewails - the arrival of dawn; also used in music |
Called a morning love song (vs a serenade) |
