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english lit vocab
english leterary terms vocab and more
Question | Answer |
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rhythm | musical quality in language produced in repetition |
tone | the attitude a WRITER takes towards a subject, character or the reader |
mood | a story's atmosphere or the feeling it evokes |
analogy | comparison made between things to show they are alike |
refrain | repeated words, phrase, line or group of line *think of the chorus of a song* |
idiom | A common expression that has acquired a meaning that differs from its literal meaning |
poetic license | a writer's freedom to break the rules of language |
extended metaphor | a metaphor that is developed over several lines or throughout an entire poem |
dead metaphor | a metaphor that is so overused that it's impact has been lost |
mixed metaphor | the inconsistent combination of 2 or more metaphors |
assonance | repetition of similar vowel sounds followed by different consonant sounds in words that are close |
parallelism | repetition of words, phrases or sentences that have the same grammatical structure |
internal rhyme | rhyme between words in the same line |
inversion | reversal of normal word order in a sentence |
dramatic poetry | when the reader and audience know something important that the characters don't |
situational irony | when what actually happens is the opposite of what is expected appropriate |
narrative poetry | poetry that has a plot or tells a story |
lyric poetry | poetry that expresses a speaker's emotions or thoughts and doesn't tell a story |
ode | a lyrical poem that is structured in 3 major parts: srophe, antistophe and the epode |
epic | a long narrative poem that relates to the great deeds of a hero who embodies the values of a particular society |
ballad | song or song-like poem that tells a story |
free verse | poem that doesn't have a regular meter or rhyme scheme |
elegy | a mournful poem, a lament for the dead |