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Question | Answer |
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Alegory | a tale in verse or prose in wich charactors actions or settings represent abstract ideas or moral qualities |
blank verse | verse written in iambic pentameter |
conotation | all emotions and associations that a word or phrase may arouse |
elegy | a poem of mourning usually over the death of an individual |
fable | a brief story that is told to present a moral or practicle lesson |
Iambic pentamiter | a poetic line consisting of five verse feet with ech foot an iamb that is an un stressed followed by a stressed syallable |
irony | a contrast or an incongruity between what is stated and what is really meant or what is expected to happen actually does happen |
kenning | in old English poetry an elabrit phrase that describes persons things or events in a metaphorical and indirect way |
lyric | a poem usually a short one that expresses a speakers personal thoughts or feelings |
satire | a kind of writing that holds up to ridicule or contempt the weakness and wrong doings of individuals groups institutions or humanity in general |
sonnet | a 14 lined lyricle poem usually written in rythmed iambic pentameter |
suspense | the quality of story novel or drama that makes the reader or audience uncertain ot tense about the outcome of events |