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lit terms BJT
Question | Answer |
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onomatopoeia | a word that is formed by its sound |
end rhyme | the use of rhyme at the ends of lines of poetry |
ballad | tells a story in short stanzas |
alliteration | repetition of letters in word |
consonance | recurrence of consonants |
lyric | expressing writers emotions |
elegy | poem about death |
ode | a poem meant to be sung |
sonnet | 14 lines |
petrarchaen sonnet | abbaabba |
shakespearean sonnet | a sonnet with concluding couplet in iambic pentameter |
metonymy | A figure of speech in which one word or phrase is substituted for another with which it is closely associated |
synechdoche | address something as a part of a whole |
oxymoron | adjective/noun that contradict eachother |
paradox | sentence that contradicts itself |
meter | number of beats in a line |
internal rhyme | a rhyme between words in the same line |
allusion | reference to another piece of literature |
epic | long poem illustrating the deeds of a hero |
haiku | -17 syllables |
apostrophe | address to an absent or imaginary person |
hyperbole | exaggeration |
litotes | understatement |
refrain | A phrase, verse, or group of verses repeated at intervals throughout a song or poem, especially at the end of each stanza. |
couplet | two lines in a verse, in the same meter, joined by rhyme |
free verse | poetry that doesnt follow the rhyme or meter of the rest of the poem |
SIFFSIST | -speaker-imagery-form-figuritive lang.-symbol-irony-struture-tone |
CPETSISST | -characterization-POV-event-tone-symbol-impagery-structure-setting-theme |
diction | choice and use of words in writing |
syntax | arrangement of words and phrases |
wry | mocking |
bantering | playful/teasing remark |
bemused | confuse |
simpering | flirty |
urbane | courteous |
strident | loud/hard |
derisive | mocking |
beseeching | beg/request |
pedantic | overly concerned |
conciliatory | compromising |
pompous | self important |
fatuous | silly/pointless |
laconic | style using very few words |