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Literary Terms
Term | Definition |
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Paradox | using contradiction in a manner that oddly makes sense on a deeper level |
Scansion | the act of scanning a poem to determine its meter |
Diction | the choice of a particular word as opposed to other |
Monologue | An interior monologue not necessarily represent spoken words |
Dramatic Monologue | A poem in which a poetic speaker addresses either the reader or an internal listener at length |
Interior Monologue | A type of stream of consciousness in which the author depicts the interior thoughts of a single indivdual |
Persona | an external representation of oneself which might or might not accurately reflect's one inner self |
Mood | a feeling, emotional state, or disposition of mind especially |
Consonance | the final consonants of the stressed syllables match each other out the vowels differ |
Assonance | repeating identical or similar vowels |
Sibilance | a consonant characterized by a hissing sound |
Narrative Poetry | a form of poetry which tells a story |
Caesura | a pause separating phrases within lines of poetry |
Enjambment | a line with no pause or end punction |
End-Stop | a line ending in a full pause |
Antithesis | using a opposite phrase is a close conjunction |