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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