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Literary Terms Test1

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Aside   a stage device in which the character expresses his thoughts or intentions in a short speech which, by convention, is inaudible to the other characters on the stage  
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Apostrophe   addressing someone (dead) or something (an idea), not present, as though present  
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Elizabethan (Shakespearean) Sonnet   fourteen lines. iambic pentameter, three quatrains, one couplet  
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Italian (Petrarchan) Sonnet   fourteen lines, iambic pentameter, octave and sestet  
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Archetype   An original model or pattern from which other later copies are made, especially a character, an action, or situation that seems to represent common patterns of human life.  
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Motif   It is a term for an often-repeated character, incident, idea or image in literature that is used to convey themes.  
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Iambic   ( u / ): two syllable foot--unstressed, stressed  
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Pentameter   five-foot line  
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Denouement   falling action, the action which works out the decision made in the climax--the story unravels  
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Exposition   background information on the characters, setting, and situation, usually found at the beginning of a story  
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Caesura   Punctuation or a phrasal pause in the middle of a line  
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End-stopped line   punctuation at the end of a line  
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Enjambment   poetic "sentence" which flows over more than one line  
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Turn/volta   a sudden change in thought, direction, or emotion near the conclusion of a sonnet  
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Internal Scheme   Similar sounds which occur between two or more words in the same line of verse (usually at the middle and end of the line).  
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Assonance   the similarity or repetition of a vowel sound in two or more words in a line of verse  
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Quatrain   four-line stanza  
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Active/Passive Voice   he passive voice omits the doer of the action. Active voice. The English defeated the French Passive voice. The French were defeated.  
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