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HBL B Final Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| aside | dramatic convention that allows a character on stage to speak aloud his thoughts, unheard by other characters present |
| soliloquy | a monologue spoken by an actor at a point in the play when the character believes he is alone on stage |
| tragedy | dramatic or narrative writing in which the main character suffers disaster after a serious and significant struggle, but faces his or her downfall in such a way as to attain heroic stature |
| pathetic fallacy | nature reflecting the deeds of men in an exaggerated manner |
| dramatic irony | involves a situation in which the audience or reader knows something about the present or future circumstances that the character does not know. |
| blank verse | unrhymed line of iambic pentameter |
| essay | Serious, dignified, logically organized prose discussion written to inform or persuade |
| satire | Technique that employs wit (wordplay) to ridicule a subject, usually some social institution or human failing with the intention to inspire reform |
| Horatian satire | employs light, witty, and urbane language to ridicule a subject with the intent to inspire reform. |
| Juvenalian satire | biting, bitter, angry, or destructive work with the intent to inspire reform. |
| verisimilitude | a fictional piece is written with enough detail to seem to be fact. |
| mock epic | A long, heroic comical poem that merely imitates features of the classical epic. The poet also takes an elevated style of language but applies that language to mundane or ridiculous tasks |
| diary | an informal record of a person’s private life and day |
| journal | Meant to be published; focuses more on observation and an objective report of those observations. |
| elegy | a solemn reflective poem, usually about death or mourning for something that is gone written in formal style. |
| biography | The summation of a person’s life written by someone other than the subject of the book |
| epitaph | inscription on a tombstone in memory of the person buried there |
| epigram | a short witty verse or saying, often ending in a wry twist. |
| epigraph | a short verse appearing at the beginning of a literary work. |
| muse | Invoked by the Poet for guidance and inspiration in an epic |
| periodical essay | a brief prose discussion contained within a publication that comes out in intervals longer than one day. |
| aphorism | a brief saying embodying a moral. |
| heroic couplet | Two lines of poetry consisting of rhyming iambic pentameter. |
| irony | the contrast between what appears to be and what really is. |
| metaphor | comparison of two objects, people, ideas, etc; |
| ode | a long lyric poem, formal in style and complex in form, often written in commemoration or celebration of a special quality or object. |
| paradox | a statement, often metaphorical, that seems to be self contradictory but which has valid meaning |
| personification | the representation of abstractions, ideas, animals, or inanimate objects as human beings by giving them human characteristics |
| simile | a figure of speech involving a comparison using like or as |
| sonnet | 14 line verse written in iambic pentameter |
| lyric poetry | A short poem of song |
| ottava rima | stanza pattern consisting of eight iambic pentameter lines rhyming abababcc |
| terza rima: verse form with three | line stanza rhyming aba, bcb, cdc, etc., often ending in a wry twist |
| allusion | an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference. |
| anastrophe | Inversion of word order in order to emphasize a certain word or phrase. |
| apostrophe | : a figure of speech in which an absent person, an abstract concept, or an inanimate object is directly addressed |
| synecdoche | A figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole. |
| assonance | Repetition of the sound of a vowel or in nonrhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible |
| consonance | Repetitive sounds produced by consonants within a line of poetry. |
| feminine rhyme | corresponding sounds in the last two consecutive syllables, the second of which is unstressed. (lighting, fighting) |
| masculine rhyme | sound is restricted to the final accented syllable; generally a more forceful, vigorous sound |
| eye rhyme | words used as rhymes which look alike but actually sound different (alone, done) |
| slant rhyme | partial, imperfect rhyme, occasionally the result of pressing exigencies or lack of skill, but are also at times used deliberately by modern poets for special effects (ladder, matter) |
| internal rhyme | occurs when a word within the poetic lines rhyme with a word occurring later in the same lines, many times at the end of a line. |
| ballad | a poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas. |
| ballad stanza: | four line stanza rhyming abcb, with alternating iambic tetrameter and trimeter lines |
| imagery | visually descriptive or figurative language |
| foreshadowing | Hint given to the reader of what is to come |
| atmosphere | The general mood of the story. This can be conveyed by the setting, the dialogue of the characters, or the author's description of objects. |
| tone | Words and phrases used to evoke a certain feeling from the reader. |
| frame | a prose or poetic narrative that encloses another narrative. An example is in |
| familiar essay | short prose discussion which is highly informal and light in tone, often humorous, filled with intimate personal observations and reflections, and have emphasized the concrete and tangible, the sensual enjoyment of everyday pleasures |
| critical impressionism | prose work on which the emphasis is on the writer’s impressions and emotional response to the subject under discussion, rather than on a rigorously developed logical argument |
| psychological realism | Mechanic in which we are put inside the mind of the characters in order to understand what their motives are, clarifies information reader needs to know |
| demon of fate | Force or character in in the story that serves as a link to the past that points to this past and rushes the main character to their doom |
| fantasy | A genre of literature that is removed from reality and takes place in an unrealistic setting |
| aesthetic hedonism | Employs the phrase "art for art's sake"; movement in which people idolize pleasure from superficial resources |
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