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Literary Terms
Renaissance Literary Terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Alliteration | repetition of consonant sounds in words that are close to one another |
| Allusion | a reference to a statement, person, place, event, or thing that is known from literature, history, religion, myth, politics, sports, science, or popular culture |
| Blank Verse | poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter |
| Carpe Diem | a Latin phrase that literally means "seize the day" - that is, "make the most of present opportunities" |
| Couplet | two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme |
| Dissonance | a harsh discordant combination of sounds |
| Free Verse | poetry that has no regular meter or rhyme scheme |
| Hyperbole | a figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion or create a comic effect |
| Motif | in literature, a word, character, object, mage, metaphor, or idea that recurs in a work or in several works |
| Oxymoron | a figure of speech that combines apparently contradictory or incongruous ideas |
| Paradox | an apparent contradiction that is actually true |
| Pastoral | a type of poem that depicts rustic life in idyllic, idealized terms |
| Personification | a kind of metaphor in which a nonhuman thing or quality is talked about as if it were human |
| Quatrain | a four-line stanza or poem, or a group of four lines unified by a rhyme scheme |
| Refrain | a repeated word, phrase, line or group of lines |
| Rhythm | the alternation of stressed and unstressed syllables in language |
| Simile | a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two seemingly unlike things by using a connective word such as like, as than, or resembles |
| Stanza | a group of consecutive lines in a poem that form a single unit |
| Symbol | a person, place, thing, or event that stands both or itself and for something beyond itself |
| Tercet | a triplet, or stanza of three lines, in which each line ends with the same rhyme |
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