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CR Lit terms 4
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Aphorism | a terse statement that expresses a general truth or moral principle; sometimes considered a folk proverb |
| Apostrophe | a rhetorical (not expecting an answer) figure of direct address to a person, object, or abstract entity |
| Apotheosis | Elevating someone to the level of a god. |
| Archetype | A character, situation, or symbol that is familiar to people from all cultures because it occurs frequently in literature, myth, religion, or folklore. |
| Flat character | simple, one-dimensional character who remains the same, and about whom little or nothing is revealed throughout the course of the work. Flat characters may serve as symbols of types of people, similar to stereotypical characters |
| Free verse | poetry that does not have regular rhythm or rhyme. |
| Genre | the category into which a piece of writing can be classified—poetry, prose, drama. Each genre has its own conventions and standards. |
| Interior monologue | a literary technique used in poetry and prose that reveals a character’s unspoken thoughts and feelings. An interior monologue may be presented directly by the character, or through a narrator |
| Internal rhyme | a rhyme that is within the line, rather than at the end. The rhyming may also be within two lines, but again, each rhyming word will be within its line, rather than at the beginning or end |
| Inversion | a switch in the normal word order, often used for emphasis or for rhyme scheme. |
| Italian Sonnet | Fourteen-line poem divided into two parts: the first is eight lines (abbaabba) and the second is six (cdcdcd or cdecde). |
| Meter | the rhythmical pattern of a poem. Just as all words are pronounced with accented (or stressed) syllables and unaccented (or unstressed) syllables, lines of poetry are assigned similar rhythms. English poetry uses five basic metric feet. |
| Metonymy | a figure of speech that replaces the name of something with a word or phrase closely associated with it |
| Narrative poem | a poem that tells a story |
| Parable | a short story illustrating a moral or religious lesson |
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